As you guys know, we block outgoing traffic for non-blessed apps.
This causes a lot of confusion, not to mention an extra step whenever
you want to write an app which accesses an external service, like
Facebook or an RSS feed.  But we need to do this to prevent abuse by
spammers.

However, I suspect that the majority of abuse problems will come from
sending email, that is, port 25.  Whereas most of the outgoing traffic
you'd want to send from a regular app would be web, that is, ports 80
and 443.  So I've changed our firewall rules to allow 80 and 443 for
all apps.

Email is still blocked, so you'll still need a blessing if you want to
send emails.  (I don't suppose anyone knows of an email service that
exports a REST API for sending mail?)

Enjoy. :)

Adam

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