[e2e] Fwd: Camel's nose in the tent

[Vernon Schryver]

> To: "end2end-interest at postel.org" <end2end-interest at postel.org>
> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed at reed.com>

> Verizon DSL has instituted recently an official policy of blocking all 
> email that a user sends that does not have a line in the header that says 
> it is sent from verizon.net or bellatlantic.net.  This is apparently 
> because they want to "stop spam", but has a number of additional effects 
> (such as creating a "walled garden" for email origination).
>...

Does that policy apply to all SMTP traffic or only to SMTP sessions
with Verizon DSL SMTP relays or servers?  In other words, are they
simply limiting the end-to-end traffic between their hosts (that happen
to be an SMTP relays) and other hosts or are they running interception
proxies?


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com