Re: Lazy network operators

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, John Curran wrote:

I'm very much suggesting blocking outward to the Internet port 25 traffic, except from configured mail relays for that end-user site. Those hosts which have MSTP malware are stopped cold as a result.

NNTP is set up almost everywhere with configured server to server connections, and essentially all "open" NNTP user access has been closed down over the years. How is the spam problem on USENET these days?