On Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 2:39:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:

>>   Didn't know if anyone here was aware of this.
>>
>>   SBC (which bought pacbell and all of its DSL customers a few years ago) 
>> is now blocking
>>   outbound port 25 to anything but its own mail servers.

> amazing, and wonderful.  pacbell's DSL lines have been HUGE sources of 
> abuse for DSL-direct-to-MX spamming.

> now, if only, Level3, adelphia, comcast, roadroadrunner, and every other 
> subscriber dsl/cable/dial-up access network on the planet would do the same 
> ...

  I know RoadRunner, at least the part of NY our CEO is located, has port 25 
filtering. I had to
  open up an additional port for SMTP so he could send mail from home. Frontier 
is another that
  started last year sometime.

> Len

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