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Re: dynamic ip: cold hard facts

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Subject: Re: dynamic ip: cold hard facts
From: Charles Cazabon <qmail@discworld.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:13:14 -0600
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Larry <lweldon@welcoin.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 08:47 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 
> > ISP-provided mail servers have gotten significantly worse over the last
> > ten years, to the point that simply saying "relay through your ISP's
> > smarthost" is no longer good advice.
> 
> That's a good point - decent email service to all customers is indeed
> essential. There are two entities to discuss: the residential or casual
> business user who doesn't care about a static IP and the commercial user who
> really needs a static IP and either can't buy one from the local ISP (I
> assume that's you Charles) or gets a static mixed into an otherwise dynamic
> range.

True, true static addresses were not available from the ISP I was talking
about.  But I no longer live in that city.  I currently have truly static
addresses but relay all my mail through a dedicated server in another country
anyway.

Charles
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