Actually, running a web server on 8290 isn't as easy as 80. SpamAssassin tests (WEIRD_PORT) for this, as do many other filtering packages. Forcing spammers to use non-standard ports will greatly increase their rate of detection, and in turn help to solve the spam problem. -Mike
*sigh* Unfortunately, due to the evils of Code Red, Nimda, and other worms out in the wild, I've ended up moving our personal web servers off port 80, just so the logs don't fill up with useless probes from infected boxes. So in the ever-escalating war against spam, this means when I mail out to my friends telling them the correct URL for my site (including the port), I now have to worry about those messages being improperly tagged as spam, due to the inclusion of URLs that reference specific port numbers. We seem to be slowly transforming the network into more and more just a network of port 80 boxes. :( Perhaps the Internet really is going to end up being just the Web, not through evil intervention, but by our own well-intentioned efforts. Matt (starting to feel more and more like a Star Trek redshirt frantically rotating shield frequencies to try to stay one step ahead of the attacking aliens...)