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From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
I'm a bad subscriber, Bill?
Okay, fair enough. There are no good users *expecting* to send email direct to a remote port 25 from behind a NAT. There are some good users who occasionally run slightly sloppy configurations which might attempt spurious port 25 connections.
I do, in fact, expect that. You're alleging that's a bad practice.
Good to block port 25. Not good to knee-jerk ban users whose machines happen to poke the port once or twice.
I wasn't even talking about banning or blocking me. I was, as you'll see in my other response, exercising the end-to-end architecture of the Internet, as members of this list regularly exhort that I should be able to. "This is why we can't have nice things" is not, actually, a sufficiently useful excuse for me to not agree with that principle. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274