From owner-freebsd-security Wed Mar 14 16:41: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mohegan.mohawk.net (mohegan.mohawk.net [63.66.68.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C1D37B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:41:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rjh@mohawk.net) Received: from mohegan.mohawk.net (mohegan.mohawk.net [63.66.68.21]) by mohegan.mohawk.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA24722; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:55:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rjh@mohawk.net) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 19:55:59 -0500 (EST) From: Ralph Huntington To: Mikhail Kruk Cc: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sophos and Virus return mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org No, Ralph Huntington did not write that. He responded to that, as you have done. Someone else said that about port 25 and ISPs. So] let's drop it already. On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > > > Ralph Huntington wrote: > > > > > (This is one case where blocking of port 25 by ISPs is a good thing.) > > > > Yes. And makes using eg send-pr(1) real fun(TM). Enjoying all the benefits > > of such a setup right now. While we are at it, why not firewall off the > > whole Net by just allowing a few things through proxies like www and ftp > > just so that a few morons are safe? Anyways, who would use such esoteric > > things as "cvsps" or "cvsup" and what are these etc. You can see where this > > is leading. Unfortunately network administration only looks simple if you > > are the one sitting at the admin console. Otherwise, it can quickly become > > a set of annoying limitations that hinder you @work or @play. Cool. I > > really feel like paying a lot for Internet access with these conditions. > > My DSL provider, Mindspring, blocks port 25 and I am quite happy about it. > Of course send-pr doesn't work out of the box, but you can configure > everything to work through their mail server. Blocking one port is very > far from blocking all ports except 80, it's a bad analogy. This measure is > directed at a very specific kind of activity (spamming) and does not > affect vast majority of the users. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message