-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
In many countries, the presence of bots consume a non-trivial amount of bandwidth. In developing countries, this is a non trivial amount of $$$ (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/1620212/UN-Tech-Group-Finds-Mo st-Expensive-Broadband)
Blocking port 25 allows to help identify which hosts are consuming bandwidth (likely to have a bot). Identifying and removing these hosts from the network is crucial and economically viable, unfortunately these are skills sometimes not available in such countries.
Just saying...
It looks like Germany is now all aboard a program regarding this: http://www.cio.com.au/article/359491/germany_launch_antibotnet_program_cons umers/ FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFMhEYkq1pz9mNUZTMRAkA0AJ44e0uMzlR4iXwpZAE8RQSUM3NmegCg4kV1 WOyT+X0/daNa92gGYG53Rtg= =yMOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/