I was flipping through the new issue of NetworkWorld that arrived in the
mail today and the columnist/consultant that has the column on the back
page called "BackSpin" is an absolute idiot! Someone
needs to warn him not to run with sissors.
Here is the link to the full article:
http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/032105backspin.html
Her are some "selected" quotes.
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"...A few weeks ago the school called me because their e-mail
services had suddenly stopped working: Although they could receive
e-mail, no one could send anything..."
"...I went back to the school and started trying to figure out what
was going on. A bit of poking around revealed that no servers on the
Internet could be contacted on Port 25, the port used for SMTP.
Obviously, Port 25 was being blocked . . . but why?
No, surely not . . . but there it was: A Google search revealed that
SBC, the
school's DSL provider, had decided, in its wisdom, to stem the flow of
spam by blocking SMTP!..."
"...This has to be one of the most ill-conceived anti-spam tactics
I've come across. SBC seems to have hardly thought through the
issues..."
"...But worst of all, not only was the blocking plan badly executed,
it also would hardly be a deterrent for serious spammers - they would
just use a different port to transfer mail to a remote mail
server..."
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With morons like this advising people is it any wonder that we have a
problem?
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