Blake Hudson wrote:
If 587 becomes popular, spammers will move on and the same ISPs that blocked 25 will follow suit.
I don't see this happening as easily. Authenticated means an easier shutdown of an account, rather than some form of port block/etc.
A better solution would have been to prevent infection or remove infected machines from the network(strong abuse policies, monitoring, give out free antivirus software, etc).
We have 2/3 of that. Antivirus helps some, but has some side-effects on the helpdesk, if they're also the first response tier. I find it strange mentioning 'monitoring' alongside 'freedoms', though.
Unfortunately, I don't see the trend reversing. I'm afraid that Internet freedoms are likely to continue to decline and an "Unlimited" Internet experience won't exist at the residential level in 5+ years.
I'll agree with that.