AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Jason Stephenson]

pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> But I can write a <insert favorite language here> program to directly 
> connect to port 25 on any given system and speak SMTP, and 
> technically I am not running an SMTP server.  Actually, what I'm 
> doing, is running an SMTP *CLIENT* which is using the PROPER protocol 
> for SENDING E-MAIL.  Yet, by your argument, I should not have the 
> right to choose the client I wish and send this e-mail however the 
> fsck I want?  Sorry, as Derek stated, outgoing SMTP does not a server 
> make :)

I agree with this entirely, but the issue here really isn't running 
servers. It is about blocking IP ranges. AOL is not enforcing comcast's 
TOS, but rather trying to protect themselves from the cost of spam.