"Satya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | 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.
You also have got to be kidding... greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Satya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:20 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spamwriter | 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
