From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 25 16:18:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF97C14C1F for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA18141; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 19:16:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 19:16:58 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Gary Palmer Cc: Jacques Vidrine , "Rodney W. Grimes" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) In-Reply-To: <58478.938294793@noop.colo.erols.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. :( -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message