On Jan 14, 2004 at 15:57, Chris Santerre wrote: >I completely agree with this!! I've recently had a discussion off list with >some people. I totally believe by DEFAULT this should be blocked for all >broadband users. HOWEVER, this is ONLY if a simple request to unblock at NO >charge is all it takes. It should be free and available, but NOT defaulted >to open. How much spam/viri do you think that would kill right there?
I agree with this. I relay most email through my ISP because I've been slammed a couple of times by rejects because I used direct SMTP. Here's a concrete example of why I don't like to use the relay: email to my wife at yahoo.co.uk disappears if sent through the relay, but gets to her fine if sent directly. That's a more real example than my usual what-ifs: what if the ISP starts charging for use of the relay? What if there is some other restriction? Default-blocking outbound port 25 is fine, as long as the ISPs don't use it as an excuse to insist that I buy a business class line. But I just know they will, and I suspect there's nothing we can do about it. That's why I'm against the various DULs (D=dynamic/dialup). ObSpamassassin: Using a DUL as a SA datapoint with a low absolute score is alright. 550-ing based on DULness is worse than 550-ing on ccTLDs. -- Satya. <URL:http://www.thesatya.com/> Moo! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
