On Jun 28, 2005, at 11:58 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

But with port 25 your ISP really has it backwards. The block is supposed to be for OUTBOUND traffic for a DESTINATION of port 25. This prevents
your ISP from hosting spammers and viruses.  Blocks on INBOUND traffic
with a destination of port 25 are useless.

I don't see how this is any more useless than INBOUND port 80 blocking. It prevents the cable subscriber from setting up a pr0n or warez FTP site (or a legit ftp site for that matter).

Chad


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