Chris Davies said: > The only problem here is that most of the cable modems out there have > valid reverse addresses, and providers don't block outbound port 25 > connections allowing spam to flow freely from cable modems that have > valid reverse lookups. > > Several years back when AT&T's dialup division was a spammer haven, AT&T > did the right thing and blocked port 25 outbound from dialup ports -- > requiring the spammers to use AT&T's mailhost -- and they could quickly > identify and terminate the account. If 2 cable companies did that, it > would easily quell 40% of the spam that I see. > Cox blocks it for their customers.. so there is one cable company.. :) it's annoying for those of us who need to access external mail machines since their business tier pricing and features are way out of range of normal users..
but, I have worked around that.. :) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
