On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:42:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >>An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you > >>have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on the > >>business of selling full internet uplinks for server hosting, or you > >>do business with spammers. > > > > Or unless you want ... customers. > > Except that most customers don't know what a port is, nor much less care > that any are blocked (unless it prevents them from playing everquest or > chatting). Most people don't run their own mail servers and can easily > be convinced by the ISP to use a mail client like Lookout, which is > pointed at the ISP's outbound mail server. Personally, I think it is a > responsible thing for mass market ISPs to do.
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recommending the most virus-infected piece of mail-software around is a
responsible thing to do?
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Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB)
2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double
format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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