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Date:      Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:01:09 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to  talk to dialups)
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990925170012.047f24a0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19990925222536.A1470@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
References:  <199909251959.MAA08225@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <4.2.0.58.19990925133024.044fb290@localhost> <199909251959.MAA08225@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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At 10:25 PM 9/25/99 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:

>Going further away from SMTP still, do you allow *any* traffic from
>remote dial up hosts into your network? Do you allow any traffic from
>your dial up hosts out of your network? If so, I'd like to know why you
>think SMTP and HTTP deserve special treatment, 

In a word: spam. At least in the case of SMTP.

--Brett



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