On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 11:11 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > I beg to disagree. Blocking port 25 is a violation of Net Neutrality. > > Ridiculous, net neutrality has nothing to do with service level > agreements. Residential service does not in any way, shape or form > equate to requiring full SMTP services to be able to run your own full > blown mail server, nor does denying access to port 25 for 'normal' > residential users impact their ability to access the internet or > send/receive email. > > If you want that level of service, upgrade to a service that provides > it, and that will be at least minimally monitored for abuse (it is in > the ISPs best interest to avoid getting their IP addresses on blacklists).
Absolute nonsense. There are a lot of people who prefer to run their own mail servers, and they do so legitimately on residential-grade lines because they are cheaper than business ones. Either way, what you're wishing for isn't going to happen any time soon, and it's getting off topic. Gordan
