I've got port 25 outbound blocked at my firewall. It only allows my
designated mail servers to talk to the internet via port 25, this way in the
unlikely event we do contract a virus that sets itself up as an SMTP engine
it wont do any damage to my outbound bandwidth, and only internal bandwidth
will suffer...now since I've gotten rid of the hubs and put switches in I
think that only that machine will suffer providing its not scanning the
subnet.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Andreou
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] Policing Users

Just out of curiosity, how does everyone here "police" their users?  I have 
to assume that you don't mean blocking all traffic on port 25, so what 
steps do you guys (and I mean list-wide) take to identify/prevent such
abuse?
-Jeff

At 01:02 PM 6/24/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>don't assume they don't have a clue. I assume they have the means, but it 
>costs to implement, and right now, it's NOT costing them anything NOT to 
>implement policing.
>
>ASTA's punitive "block 'em" is intended to make not policing their 
>networks a very costly, and publicly negative, stance.
>
>Len

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