AOL now rejecting mail from Comcast residential IPs.

[Jerry Feldman]

Time for my $.02.
When I signed up for my cable modem, I already had an internal network,
and at that time, Continental Cablevision did not disapprove of internal
networks. The then VP of Broadband Operations actually talked about
internal networks, mostly in the context of serving web pages and that
it is better to use their servers than to have one at home. 

More recently, the larger companies just make more restrictive rules
because a restrictive rule is easier for someone to enforce. 

AOL is now in the broadband business, but they are not stringing cable,
they are piggybacking on existing cable companies, as is Earthlink.
I don't know AOL's motives for blocking Comcast's dynamic IP addresses,
but that might also be an agreement between Comcast and AOL. 
I don't particularly like it, but for myself, I can either send through
Comcast's SMTP servers. 

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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