From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 25 16: 1:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C1D14C1F for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA14431; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:01:13 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990925170012.047f24a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 17:01:09 -0600 To: Ben Smithurst , "Rodney W. Grimes" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message