[wellylug] Spam problem highlighted by Ian

[Klenner, Colin]

Here are some related articles:

http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32964.html
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/buzz26_20040226.htm

It appears to be another pre-emptive move by Microsoft to gain the upper
hand in the SMTP market, and therefore milk us all for additional revenue
further down the track.
Let's hope that open source prevails through Sendmail Inc.

Colin

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[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Hodgetts
Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2004 9:30 a.m.
To: WellyLUG
Subject: Re: [wellylug] Spam problem highlighted by Ian

Was watching TechTV last night, to see Mr. Gates stand up and say that
Hotmail will no longer be accepting e-mail that has not come from an
authorised ISP who has some M$ product here to authencate it as being from
that IP address, and he hopes that all ISP's will comply and rederara -
insert some more crapola here....

Well that's fine by me, if anyone is stupid enough to have a Hotmail
account, then I don't have time to e-mail them..

What happened to the SMTP standard.... 

What standard is left for M$ to butcher.......

But on the side note, 

It will be interesting to see if they [m$] provide every Exchange server a
licence - because lets face it, as a company, who wants to send all their
e-mail via an "approved Microsoft" ISP!
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