> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi....@nanog.org Tue Oct 25 14:53:32 > 2011 > Subject: Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers > From: Alex Harrowell <a.harrow...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:52:46 +0100 > To: Ricky Beam <jfb...@gmail.com>, Jeroen Massar <jer...@unfix.org> > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > Ricky Beam <jfb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Works perfectly even in networks where a VPN doesn't and the idiot > >hotel > >intercepts port 25 (not blocks, redirects to *their* server.) > > > >--Ricky > > Why do they do that?
Because some "quarter-asswit"[1] sold them that it was a good idea -- maybe on the basis tht it was: "easy" to to rate-limit -- supposedly an anti-spam measure; "easy" to 'forward' all the patron traffic to a relay server of the hotel's choice, so that, -if- it is spam, the outside world sees it coming from an already segregated address-space; "easy" to implement a holding queue, so that if they _do_ detect spam, they can drop _all_ the spam messages, even those sent before the spam threshold was detected.; etc., etc., ad nauseum. [1] "half-assed half-wit", reduced to a single term.
