26 Aug
2002
26 Aug
'02
10:19 p.m.
Force forward by default, but allow anyone who wants to use TCP port 25 the ability to do so. They must sign an non-abuse agreement or whatever. Then they get their host/link put into the TCP port 25 open path.
Every ISP I have ever worked for and every ISP I have ever used has eventually been convinced by me to come around to this policy. Do whatever you want by default, but let trusted/clueful people opt out of it and just get their IP datagrams from point A to point B. I personally wouldn't sign an agreement with an ISP that allowed them to molest my traffic in this manner unless it allowed me to opt out of it. I've seen the headaches such assumptions about what everybody else needs/wants to do can cause. DS