In Reality, a consumer broadband connection is not the given right to plop any kind of server you want on the network.
Consumer Broadband connections, be it cable or dsl are meant for the user to browse faster... that's it The always on folks (sans a few) are mostly responsible for the proliferation of virus emails, spamming (with the now I can make money on the internet... so I can pay for this link so I can check my email at high speed mentality) Most broadband users are not responsible enough to have the high speed connection, but all this rant aside, 40 bucks a month does not make you an ISP. No Hosting Servers No Email Servers No FTP Servers Just consuming. Read the TOS to figure that out and give us all a break! my 2cents Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Apthorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spamwriter | > | > It's well known that filtering is *only* useful for keeping one's inbox | > uncluttered; it does nothing to interdict the flow of crap from | > upstream. You want to put a serious dent in spam? IDP broadband | > providers that give their customers direct access to port 25 on remote | > systems by default. Spam from AOL dropped to almost nothing once they | > did that. It's not trivial to filter outbound port 25 traffic but if you | > want to provide large-scale broadband access, it's mandatory to curb | > abuse. It takes money, expertise, and most importantly, the corporate | > will to be a good net neighbor and take responsibility for their users' | > actions. Most broadband providers have all but the latter; an IDP gives | > them incentive to get it or lose the rest. | > | | Or what I would like to see is large Broadband ISPs publically disclose | the IP blocks which are not supposed to be sending mail to begin with. | (Comcast.net comes to mind right away which CLEARLY states in their | Terms of Service you are not supposed to be running web/mail ect ect | servers) | | This would allow the recipient to make the concious decision to block at | firewall/mta/contentfilter, which will then reduce the blocking of | legitmate mail servers which happen to be in dynamic block. | | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | 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
