One thing that seems to be getting ignored is the fact that there are thousands of small ISP's that rely on wholesale dial to provide nationwide access, I certainly do. The problem is that we have zero control over where they are coming from and what type of filtering is done. The only time they touch my network is when they pull up our site, send/recieve mail, or use the news server. The dial providers do not restrict port 25, because it would force the settings change for millions of subscribers (default for all clients is 25, not 587, and many mail servers don't support 587).
We are also a hosting provider, and our customers an send mail through their hosted server, we respond to complaints quickly, but we are not set up to, nor do we have the manpower to police all outgoing mail from these servers. The added expense to do such would put us out of business. We do what we can, but with so many cut rate hosting providers out there, margins are very thin, the ISP has to pay the bulk of our bandwidth cost. -- Best regards, Charles mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
