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Re: Lazy network operators
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:12:03 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
maybe we can get reasonable security without a police state?What will the jack-booted-thugs do then? :)tell us how to close down other parts of the net so they can control and profit from them
Ah-ha! too bad that mean old IAB says we can't filter traffic :) (or advises against it, or thinks it's a bad idea...) In all seriousness, the consumer dial/broadband folks had to take actions like port/25 filtering (inbound and outbound actually) to address spam issues with these systems. This is unfortunate for those folks out there that 'need' smtp access to something other than the blessed email servers of their dial/broadband provider(s). Making a more sensible solution for email than the current SMTP, or finding a middle ground that works for dial/broadband users would sure be nice. Any 'port 25' filtering is really just a short term solution until all spambots use locally configured SMTP settings to bypass the filtering :( (atleast that seems to be the case with the spamwar in general, a constantly escalating war of technologies) Perhaps finding a way to make spam non-profitable, or to put enough of the high-end spammers in jail? this seems like a daunting task I must admit :( -Chris
Current thread:
- Re: Lazy network operators, (continued)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Stephen J. Wilcox (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Sean Donelan (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Andrew - Supernews (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Randy Bush (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Christopher L. Morrow (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Randy Bush (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Christopher L. Morrow (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Robert E. Seastrom (Apr 14)
- Routing issues Simon Brilus (Apr 14)
- Re: Routing issues Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 14)
- Re: Routing issues Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 14)
- Re: Lazy network operators Stephen J. Wilcox (Apr 13)
- Re: Routing issues Nick Feamster (Apr 14)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators John Curran (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Eric Brunner-Williams (Apr 13)
- Re: Lazy network operators Paul Vixie (Apr 13)