Christopher Schmidt wrote:
This is not technical incompetence. This is a decision that's being made, which has numerous reasonable reasons behind it -- the largest being that most mail going out to port 25 from residential connections *is* either spam or an exploited machine, as most users run Windows, and Windows does not use an smtpd running on localhost to send out mail (at least, not in most cases).
That same logic could apply to *ALL* email, everywhere. Most email, everywhere, is spam, and by that logic, *ALL* email should be completely shut down.
Blocking port 25 is not an acceptable approach in either case. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
