>>>>> "Heath" == Heath Morrison <[email protected]> writes:
Heath> Verizon is not blocking outgoing port 25 to protect you or to control Heath> you, they're blocking outgoing port 25 because of the abuse it exposes Heath> them to. It obviously has no direct benefit to the end user, but it Heath> does remove a common source of spam. This should lead to a net Heath> reduction in spam. A much better solution would be to forbid all Windows machines from being attached to their network, but that isn't likely going to fly. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
