-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brad Camroux wrote: > On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:09:15AM -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Shaw will be redirecting all outbound connections on port 25 to their >> own mail servers. For the moment there is a small test zone downtown >> (that happens to include 2 of my clients and my apartment) that has had >> this change implemented. >> >> I think this is a bad idea (and so do my clients who were unable to send >> email ). If you also think that this is a bad idea you should probably >> let them know. >> >> The support staff were unaware of this change, so you may wish to have >> them look at Ticket# 11799439. > > Why would they do this? Is this just an attempt to keep unauthorized > servers off the network, or is there more to it? >
Understandably it is to cut down on spam bots, at least that was what I was told. I can understand and even sympathize with their goals, but I am paying for Internet *access*. I am particularly bitter since I am paying extra for extreme and my clients are paying extra for SOHO. >> I may be eating my words in the near future and ordering up a Telus DSL >> connection. > > Not necessarily a bad idea, though I'd like to find something faster and > more reliable than DSL. > I still miss Cadvision. Their small business package was simply awesome, and downtown their speeds were comparable to cable. > Brad > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEpBG/wRXgH3rKGfMRAgrAAJ9H9IVPQ7fWmk6pgbsSYQmhEIQoGQCeJzFO xpbCYPfPHLO9W1SsTxw7UyY= =yUoi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
