Re: [ASRG] 0 - General, Reliability of Transport

[Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com>]

"Chris" <asrg at rebel.com.au> wrote:

> Now say the ASRG comes up with a filtering system that takes that control
> away from you (further clarification below)
. . .
> The control may be taken away from you because a remote administrator
> implements the "filtering system". Therefore mail destined for you, that
> passes through that remote MTA is under their control not yours. even though
> the mail is intended for you.

If the mail never got to his company, he has no control, so it's not
his problem.  If the mail reached his company's servers, then no
remote administrator has any more control.

Suppose that some important customer has been sending email
direct-to-MX from his dialup or ADSL connection at home.  Now we
decide that it's a bad idea for direct-to-MX from home machines to be
permitted, because it's mostly spam.  Based on that (yeah, right) the
important customer's ISP starts blocking direct-to-MX from home
machines.  Now that customer's mail doesn't get out, at all.

How does that hurt somebody who's doing filtering on incoming mail,
when the blocked stuff never became incoming mail?

Seth

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