> But the marketing department shot down a ban on port 25 because of > its circa $58 million price tag--so high partially because some > subscribers would have to be told how to reconfigure their mail > programs to point at Comcast's servers...
$18 billion revenue at a ~40% profit margin minus a one-time expense of $58 million...poor babies. > Instead, Comcast's engineers plan to try the innovative approach of > identifying the zombie PCs and surreptitiously sending the > subscriber's cable modem a new configuration routine that prevents > outbound connections on port 25. Ooh, super-cool. I'm sure the spammers will _never_ find a way around that one. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange Addresses into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
