Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 23:54:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) Message-ID: <199909282354.QAA14538@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199909252335.QAA08631@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 25, 99 04:35:50 pm
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> They already are, and you don't even know it. It may be at a major > provider near you soon too. These are _NOT_ proxy boxes, these are > the new generation of ``no change needed to client boxes'' web caches. Pull the other one, and then ask Paul Vixie about his "Interceptor" box, and what's currently going on with it. > SMTP deserves very special attention due to the fact that the number 1 > complaint of users of the internet is *SPAM*. SPAM is propogated via > smtp. Do I need to say more? I can if I do. I think you need to block POP3 and "Pine". Most SPAM is propagated via either reading it at the ISP, or using POP3 and pulling it down nto client machines. > HTTP deserves special treatment as it consumes 76% of our upstream > channel. Our ability to reduce the cost of rendering service is good > common business practice. If you want to continue to pay $15/month > for a service I can cost effeciency reduce to $8.00/month go right ahead, > meanwhile I'll be chomping away at your heals. Block them animated GIF banner ads... that'll decrease your overhead. > You can add up ALL the other protocols and they don't even make a > dent compared to HTTP traffic. And pictures, in particular. Ignoring that, you have "nocache" pages of dynamic content, where in fact it's a rather trivial addition to allow HTTP transported dynamic content to be cached on a per document basis. Though not transparently, without client modifications. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehelp
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