From: Jorey Bump (listjoreybump.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2008 - 10:50:46 CDT

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Lee Quince wrote, at 05/13/2008 11:48 AM:
> O'well you all seem to miss the business side of it..
>
> Sometimes its not about what we want but what our customers ask for.!
> i.e in this case a hotel.
>
> I agree not best practice, but when you have a screaming executive at
> 3am on the support phone who cannot understand where the power button is
> "i normally shut the lid" then you may understand..
>
> We will have 10,000 smtp redirect's of legitimate email everyday.. then
> there will be the 4 users that have paid 500.00 for a room and they
> cannot send email on the free wifi service. What is the smaller pain?
>
> As for the comment about who's protects the user? Well it would have to
> be the box the laptop came in. Really is that our problem, we don't host
> there email just provide a mechanism to send. The least we need the user
> to change the better.

Then don't block or attempt to proxy port 25. They don't need you to
supply an MTA in order to send email. They already have an email
provider, as you point out. Why interfere at all, if you don't want the
headache?

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