Please consider the situation of net abuse with the source address being an infected PCs on a dialup pool that has port 25 filtering enabled. [ triangular routing ]
Back when Ernesto Haberli was active, this was his trademark technique. He'd burn through large numbers of dialup accounts, but hide the address of his high-speed connection. At the time he left the business a few years ago it worked pretty well and I gather he left because he'd run out of high speed ISPs to sign up with. I'd be interested to know if triangular routing is used by particular people now, or is it just another trick thrown into the mix along with zombie proxies and such. Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY http://www.taugh.com