> From [email protected] Tue Oct 25 14:53:32 > 2011 > Subject: Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers > From: Alex Harrowell <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:52:46 +0100 > To: Ricky Beam <[email protected]>, Jeroen Massar <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > Ricky Beam <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Works perfectly even in networks where a VPN doesn't and the idiot > >hotel > >intercepts port 25 (not blocks, redirects to *their* server.) > > > >--Ricky > > Why do they do that?
Because some "quarter-asswit"[1] sold them that it was a good idea -- maybe on the basis tht it was: "easy" to to rate-limit -- supposedly an anti-spam measure; "easy" to 'forward' all the patron traffic to a relay server of the hotel's choice, so that, -if- it is spam, the outside world sees it coming from an already segregated address-space; "easy" to implement a holding queue, so that if they _do_ detect spam, they can drop _all_ the spam messages, even those sent before the spam threshold was detected.; etc., etc., ad nauseum. [1] "half-assed half-wit", reduced to a single term.
