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Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition


From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:25:21 -0400

On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:07:16 -0400, Laszlo Hanyecz <laszlo () heliacal net> wrote:
One would hope that with IPv6 this would change, but the attitude of looking down on end subscribers has been around forever.

And for damn good reasons (read: foolish and easy to trick into becoming a spam source.) Granted, "enterprise" players are only slightly less foolish and easy to hack. My inbox being proof hosting providers cannot police their idiot users.

ISPs will need to continue the "evil" practice of blocking outbound port 25.

--Ricky


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