Blake Hudson wrote: > If > 587 becomes popular, spammers will move on and the same ISPs that > blocked 25 will follow suit.
I don't see this happening as easily. Authenticated means an easier shutdown of an account, rather than some form of port block/etc. > A better solution would have been to prevent infection or remove > infected machines from the network(strong abuse policies, monitoring, > give out free antivirus software, etc). We have 2/3 of that. Antivirus helps some, but has some side-effects on the helpdesk, if they're also the first response tier. I find it strange mentioning 'monitoring' alongside 'freedoms', though. > Unfortunately, I don't see the trend reversing. I'm afraid that Internet > freedoms are likely to continue to decline and an "Unlimited" Internet > experience won't exist at the residential level in 5+ years. I'll agree with that.