John, Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 10:50:14 AM, you wrote:
IMHO, to block ALL outbound port 25 traffic on the sending end is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
JRL> It certainly is, but for most ISPs, there's a very small baby in a huge JRL> tub of spam. Remember that this whole question only occurs for dialup or JRL> DHCP users who are not using their ISP's mail service. While that JRL> probably includes just about everyone you and I know, overall, it's a JRL> teensy minority of ISP customers. It appears that the policy of blocking outbound port 25 has been adopted much more broadly. It is not just folks running dial-in services. At a minimum, anyone with "visitors" -- no matter how they connect -- is a candidate for embracing the blocking philosophy. d/ -- Dave <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> t +1.408.246.8253; f +1.408.850.1850