JS> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:56:51 -0400 JS> From: Justin Scott JS> Have you ever tried to have Joe Sixpack call BigISP support to ask JS> for an exception to a port block on his consumer-class connection JS> with a dynamic IP? In my experience, most people capable of preventing outbound 25/TCP abuse also are capable of requesting "please allow me unfiltered 25/TCP access to the entire world". Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: davidc@brics.com -*- jfconmaapaq@intc.net -*- sam@everquick.net Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter.