On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bob Apthorpe moaned: > ISPs don't need to charge customers for the privilege of unfiltered > outbound port 25 access; all I ask is that they tell customers it's > blocked and require them to specifically ask for it to be unblocked rather > than give it to them unblocked by default. The vast majority of broadband > customers don't need it and those that do generally know enough to secure > their machines.
This is exactly what my ISP does, and while I dislike block-by-default, in the specific case of port 25-dest it's probably a good idea... -- `note to the crown prosecution service: Machine guns dont have a 'stun' setting.' --- mjw ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
