Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Lexi Pimenidis wrote:
Our exit node has already been used to send spam over Port 80, i.e.
using the yahoo web interface (there was a small discussion on that a
No. Spam has been sent via Yahoo. It's their problem, not Tor's.
Blocking port 25 is different, because here you can spam end
users directly.
Devil's advocate position: No, you can't. You can't connect directly to
any user to send spam directly to their inbox. You *can* connect to
arbitrary mail servers and request that they spam users, but that's
their problem, not Tor's.
I think blocking port 25 is probably the right thing to do as a default,
but I personally have all ports open on my server.
-Ben
