On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:20:51PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:11 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> >>>Quite easy: any dynamic netblock should be blacklisted on any list.
> >>What kind of dumb idea is that ? Many people are stuck with dynamic IP
> >>allocation (24 hour reset because ISP thinks that will prevent people
> >>from keeping the link up all the time and free some ATM bandwidth) so
> >>they shouldn't be allowed to use their own MX ? Instead of preventing
> >>few problems which can be avoided in other ways (look below) this 
> >>causes
> >>lots of problems.
> >
> >Don't be your own MX then, but let it deliver to a "real" MX and post
> >messages by sending them to your ISP's relay. That's IMHO The Right
> >Thing (TM).
> 
>   Eh.  IMHO the Right Thing would be to dump the crappy ISP and give 
> the business to one who will give you static addresses.

Hmmmm. I've had the same netblock since 1999 or so, perhaps 2000. 
In the past year or so Time Warner decided I'm a dynamic IP dialup
and so they bounce my emails. Mails sent to attws.com disappear without
a trace. Those are the only two problems I've found so far, but it does
show that a static netblock doesn't solve the "nobody likes my dynamic
IP" problem.

I'm probably going to have to relay mail outbound through a Windows
server at my ISP. *sigh*
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