Rich Kulawiec wrote (on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:25:20AM -0400):
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:38:17AM -0300, jim deleskie wrote:
As to his decision to block Gmail (or any other freemail provider), everyone with sufficient knowledge in the field knows that these operations are prolific and habitual sources of spam (via multiple vectors, not just SMTP; Google accounts for more Usenet spam hitting my filters than all other sources combined). It's thus not at all unreasonable for some operations to revoke (some oor all of) their privileges by way of self-defense.
And, even if it *is* unreasonable, well, his network, his rules, right? "I block all SMTP traffic from IPV4 servers (clients?) which have odd numbers in the third octet." might not be a good idea for a high volume mail server with clients, but if it's your network, go for it. -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM awacs@ziskind.us Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants