[NCLUG] more than 7 email ids with @Home?

[Daniel Herrington]

Benson,

Thanks for the info.  Someone pointed out a possible problem with the
inclusiveness of the user agreement, however, with regards to "no
servers."  Is my PC a mail "server" when it sends out an email?  If
so, then isn't everyone who sends email out running a mail server?
Please let me know if this is a correct assumption.

Assuming that the first assumption is correct, the next question I
would ask is: If the agreement clause about "no servers" is intended
to keep people from sucking up upload bandwidth, e.g. with ftp or http
servers, and if it's completely legitimate in MS Outlook to set up
mail forwarding to multiple recipients, then is it still in accordance
with the principles of the user agreement to use something like
"mailman" to do a smarter job of forwarding the email?  A week or so
ago I set up an email id with automatic forwarding to a small list of
recipients, but I found that it was too insecure (unbeknownst to me, I
ended up automatically forwarding the "Snow White..." virus that
someone unknowingly sent to my list alias).

Now I would assume that if I make a large forwarding list, and I have
lots of traffic, then I am probably violating the intent of the user
agreement.  However, if my first assumption is true, then I'm already
violating it in the same way without the mailing list.

Here's a secondary question.  If I set up a webcam and have it (using
an ftp client, not a server) upload a new jpeg continuously to my
webspace on @Home's server, am I violating the agreement?

What do you think?  Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Thanks again,
   Daniel


=> Replying to Benson Chow's message, "Re: [NCLUG] more than 7 email ids with @Home?" (Mar 1):
 > Yes, it's possible.  And it works.  Make sure you set your sendmail.cw
 > properly (add your hostname in it) or set yuor hostname to your ugly one
 > and restart sendmail.  Of course that's if you're using sendmail as your
 > mta.
 > 
 > But you're not "allowed" to do that from the @home user agreement
 > following the clause "No Servers".  Which is why I decided to go DSL at
 > higher cost and lower bandwidth...
 > 
 > -bc
 >