From: M. Fioretti (mfiorettinexaima.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 10:13:42 CST

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On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 10:29:29 AM -0200, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
(leolistassolutti.com.br) wrote:

> Those people, who chooses to run their mailserver on DSL/cable
> connections and NOT relay on their ISPs are already having bad times
> when sending mail to big ISPs and big companies.
>
> Even it's 'OK' on RFC scope, this is not OK on the real world
> anymore.
> ...

> I had some mailservers running on static IP DSL lines here in Brazil
> and tried, for some time, to avoid upstreaming the messages to the
> ISPs. But .... for more than a year now, i realized that that was a
> lost war. And i started upstreaming messages to ISPs.

couple this trend with the regulations popping up in several countries
which force ISPs to keep copies of all data for longer and longer
periods and an uncomfortable scenario appears: just when there is
finally enough cheap technology to allow [competent and responsible]
individuals to be their own postmasters, that is to have full control
on their _own_ digital communications, the (mostly in good faith)
efforts of other postmasters to stop spam are forcing people to give
up that control and privacy to organizations which are much easier to
control by governments.

Of course, this has nothing to do with postfix. I have posted this
here only because the issue had already come up and I welcome in any
moment private feedback on these themes (which should be abundant from
members of a list like this), as I hope to write an article on this
some time.

Happy 2008,
                Marco
--
Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84

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