xv920
join:2002-08-27
Campbell, CA
1 edit | limit the number of outgoing emails
Legit users don't send tons of email per minute. Let
the SMTP server limit the number to, say, 1000 emails
per user per month with a per-day max of 100? You will
not be negatively affected unless you are a spammer.
If you run a business and you want to send more than
1000 emails, why don't you buy the credit from
your ISP that allows you to send out another 1000 emails
for just $9.95 per month? |
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JPCass
join:2001-01-23
Denver, CO
|  I, and others, have wondered for years why more ISPs haven't done this. Some of the big ISPs, particularly the free ones, that spammers use a lot have finally done some limiting of outgoing mail in the last year or so.
Limits don't even need to be tied to higher fees, though the chance to charge a bit more might provide some incentive for some of the greedier or more callous ISPs. ISPs could just by default set low limits on outgoing mail, unless the user contacted them and specifically asked for higher limits because they sent out mailing lists or had some other specific need. And ISPs could still check suspicious mailing patterns regardless of limits, just as credit and phone card companies do when unusual usage shows up. |
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Goldengamego
Premium
join:2004-02-22
Okemos, MI
2 edits | reply to xv920
No need to charge. A business should just have to call their ISP and register as such, anyone sending large amounts of mail and not registered (hacked PC) will be cut off.
EDIT: rats you beet me to it
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
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join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs:
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having your own hosted server is cheaper than that
And what about those people that happen to send more that 100 emails in a day? Are they automagically classified a spammer?
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xv920
join:2002-08-27
Campbell, CA
| ) And what about those people that happen to send more
) that 100 emails in a day? Are they automagically
) classified a spammer?
You don't "happen" to send 100. If you take just 5 minutes
to compose one, that's 500 minutes total. That's more than
8 hours. That's a job.
But I'll raise it to 200 if it makes you feel any better.
Maybe you can compose one in two and a half minutes. Or
even 500. Now you may compose one email in every single
minute for 8 hours straight. But let me tell you what.
If you have to write somebody something that fast, you
better get a messenger. Email is not a realtime
communication tool. |
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
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join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs: | You're too funny  |
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anon000
| reply to xv920
this is like claiming only Pirates use Cd burners/Dvd burners and high upload bandwidth... stop tring to make the service crappy and find a real solution |
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xv920
join:2002-08-27
Campbell, CA
1 edit | My point is that limiting the number of outgoing
emails doesn't make you, ordinary users, suffer a bit. Or
are you doing something that it might make any difference? |
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
Premium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs:
| said by xv920  :
Or
are you doing something that it might make any difference?
I'm going to get a few email addresses or start my own ISP. LOL!
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