Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 19:16:58 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Gary Palmer <gjp@in-addr.com> Cc: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251912510.17474-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <58478.938294793@noop.colo.erols.net>
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Today Gary Palmer wrote:
> It doesn't, but direct-inject and relay-rape spam is a major problem.
> How do you propose that large ISPs combat abuse of their dialups to
> create this problem? Forcing the spam to go through their own SMTP
> servers, where it can be logged, tracked, rate limited and noticed
> much earlier is a BIG step in the right direction. UU Net is doing
> this for all of their resold dialups because of the major problems
> they had.
This is the second time I've heard that UUnet is blocking port 25
from their dialups. The number of connections from *.da.uu.net
that I continue to reject make me think it is an urban legand. :(
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