[geeks] Mail relay

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>Date: Sun Jul 17 19:57:27 CDT 2005
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Mail relay

>Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 16:47, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
>>>They use an RBL to block their own customers!?
>> 
>> Hey a lot of spam comes from Verizon-owned IPs... makes sense to me.
>> 
>> If you are in a market where you have a choice, and you choose VZ ... you are clueless and thus should not be near a computer.
>
>Which is probably part of why they don't give us a choice.

The recent Supreme COurt decision will have interesting ramifications - Cable Companies don't need to make their network available to other providers, and it is expected that Telcos will have the same protection for their DSL service.

Ultimately, it will be a good thing for DSL and Cable data service deployment - their investment won't support their competitors efforts. Telcos today have to make their network elements available *at a discount* to their competitors, at a price set by the ruling PUC/state regulatory authority...