On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:34:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL
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>
> I just got off the phone with Steve Bradley of Metrocast's
> (http://www.metrocastcablevision.com/) technical support.
>
> Metrocast, last week, started filtering packets sent by their
> customers to port 25 on ALL Internet hosts. Yes, you read that right:
> Metrocast is filtering ALL port 25 packets OUTBOUND from their
> residential customers.
I'm confused, are they :
Blocking?
OR
Filtering?
You've stated it both ways, but they don't mean the same thing to me.
If they are filtering for Spam on outbound packets whose dport is 25 then
I think its probably a good thing.
--
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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