On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Aftab Siddiqui <aftab.siddi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Blocking port/25 is a common practice (!= best practice) for home > users/consumers because it makes life a bit simpler in educating the end > user. > MAAWG have considered this a best practice for residential/dynamic IPs since 2005 - http://www.uceprotect.net/downloads/MAAWGPort25English.pdf The FTC and numerous other government agreed the same year - http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/spam/zombie/letter_english.pdf (The URL in the pdf no longer works - it's not http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/spam/zombie/) Anyone not yet past the denial stage on this one needs to get themselves a copy of RFC 5068 and start reading. Scott.
