Re: Thoughts based on two recent threads (Greylist and DBL).

Bob Poortinga wrote:

> > Anyone who blocks all dynamic space to avoid spam is just too lazy to
> > do it right!
>
> Let me state a corollary: Anyone who runs a direct outbound mail server
> from dynamic space is just too lazy (or too cheap) to do it right!

And the converse applies. People who block dynamics do it for one reason,
regardless of how much they spout otherwise. It doesn't make them money.
It is a pure work to cost ratio assessment.


> Either use your ISP's server to smarthost or pay someone to smarthost
> for you. It's not expensive and it comes with lots of benefits.

It can well be expensive. A certain U.K ISP, and I am sure this is not
country specific, charges a small fortune if you wish to be allowed to
send mail with the sender address of your own domain through their
mailservers. Static and dynamic, consumer and business grade accounts.

What about startup businesses who have an, approximately, eighteen month
period where any excess budget expenditure literally can bankrupt them?
Some people or businesses just cannot afford it, or justify the excess
cost. Period.


Matt