On Sun, 1 May 2005 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
On 01-May-05 Tim Green wrote:
On 4/25/05, Ewan Leith ewan@bcs.org wrote:
If you've got full control of the SMTP server, is there any particular reason for relaying via bt for outgoing emails?
Because as a BT customer, his IP address will be in various blacklists and much of his email will be refused if an attempt is made to deliver it directly.
I can confirm that this is only too true! By the way, BT do not seem to be all that concerned about being on blacklists. Response received to a complaint about blocking in Aug 2003:
"BT has no obligation to remove its addresses from these lists and if customers are having problems it is their responsibility to advise the would be recipient to unsubscribe or to find another route for communication.
However I have requested to Distributed Server Boycott List (DSBL) to remove this IP address from the blacklist. The advise I received was, as long as further spam does not go through this server then it will be removed within twenty five hours(25 hours)."
Indeed, and some would say (for domestic subscribers), that if we are to control spam on the internet then have a duty not to remove IP adds from these blacklist blocks. They should however provide a reliable, well advertised mail smarthost for email sending - which they do not.
They should have different conditions for business connections that give one an IP outside of such blocks, along with conditions of use.