AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Kevin D. Clark]

Derek Martin <gnhlug at sophic.org> writes:

> In reality, it's likely that SOL is blocking mail from thos IPs to
> prevent spam.  Broadband users are, unfortunately, a good source of
> spam.  The AT&T/Comcast/Time Warner/@Home IP ranges are all listed on
> several RBL servers, for that reason.  So this discussion is probably
> academic, but it's still annoying.

This whole thread is rather appropos for me; last week I started
getting a lot of spam from the Comcast domain (around 40-50 messages
last week  (I complained about all of these)).

It seems to me that Comcast is trying to make sure that their network
isn't being used to interject spam onto the Internet by requiring
their users to use their central SMTP servers, and then monitoring
these.  By their reasoning, allowing users to run their own SMTP
severs makes their job of monitoring outgoing spam more difficult.

OTOH, I can understand why people would be interested in running their
own SMTP servers.

Regards,

--kevin
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