Anti-spam methods (was: Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think))

2004-05-10 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 11:44, Bob Bell wrote: However, recently I was reading about SPF and discovered MSA. Although MSA may optionally do more sophisticated things, in a limited format you can run a normal SMTP server implementing authentication on the MSA port (TCP port 587), and non-MSA

Re: Anti-spam methods (was: Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think))

2004-05-10 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:21:02PM -0400, Paul Iadonisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to bring up MSA, too. It should be noted, however, that MSA doesn't *require* authentication. Check out RFC 2476 for details. The RFC does lists authentication as an optional feature, however. I

Re: Anti-spam methods (was: Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think))

2004-05-10 Thread bscott
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 2:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm basically on the side of individual freedoms and don't like that port 25 egress filtering is being implemented by broadband vendors. Geeks (I include myself in this category) like to romanticize this idea of the big, happy Internet,

Re: Anti-spam methods (was: Re: Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think))

2004-05-10 Thread bscott
On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 6:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do predict that spammers will adapt to this new authenticated email world rather quickly. Namely, they will modify their spam-cannon-laden viruses ... That seems likely, but how much email is send from virus-attacked computers?