What are the repercussions of using one of the free ISPs ?
The first potential problem is SPAM, but you probably already anticipated that. The potential for blocked postings with free ISP’s is slightly higher because of the spam generated from them. Predicting whether a particular ISP will be blocked is problematical as it is dyanamic: QTH.NET wisely uses an real time black hole list (RBL) as documented at http://www.qth.net/rblfaq.htm What this means to you is that if spammers use, say Yahoo, and it gets blacklisted – your mail (to any qth.net reflector) may bounce until the ISP cleans things up. I completely support K3TKJ’s decision as the only leverage against SPAM is to blacklist ISPs that carry it. The rbl is dynamic, if a ISP requests removal and does not again spam the blocked IP range will again work and emails will go thru the reflector. Most likely the free ISPs will work but they may occasionally be temporarily blocked if SPAMMERS attempt to exploit the service (most of the time the yahoo or hotmail id’s of spammers are merely spuff
