At 10:38 a.m. 26/09/2003, you wrote:
I have wondered if ISPs want to encourage customers to set up individually customisable mailservers on broadband connections - some sort of appliance - that acts as their mail server.
Let the business and competent private users decide what they will and won't receive....with benefits to the ISP in terms of reduced bandwidth consumed as spam isn't deliverable to these people. Just lots of rejected connect attempts. This may even be a managed service an ISP could offer a customer / business. If payment is on data-volume, this could help reduce such charges - offsetting any service fee to some extent.
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It would be impossible to do this at ISP level....but it may be a service line an ISP might like to offer a client who wants to define what they do and do not receive.
Actually, at least one ISP in the NZ market already has a 'Virtual Mail Server' ASP product out there, with Spam and Content Control features coming in the next few weeks. Regards Claire Hurman