On Monday 06 April 2009 10:55:40 ronys wrote: > Hi, > > For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in > octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to > servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying > customers, and, for the first couple of calls to support, without admitting > anything beyond "there's a problem, we're working on it". >
Blocking port 25 for broadband users is now considered common practice, and is actually advocated by many spam fighting organizations. I personally think it's stupid and goes against everything the Internet is about, but strangely enough I wasn't consulted when that decision was made. These are also the guys that think blacklists are a good idea. But as far as it goes to making ISPs change their ways, it will most likely be the other way around - Israeli ISPs are just catching up to the unfortunate global standard. On the bright side, doing that may get them removed from several blacklists (did I mention how stupid I thought blacklists were?) > > Rony - Aviram _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
