Quoting Racer X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> if you mean the ISP blocks inbound port 25 connections to your machine: yell
> at your ISP.  they're being too nazi with their firewall rules.  if they
> don't open the port find a new ISP.  this is assuming, btw, that you have a

The reason they took this draconian measure was to protect the rest of
us from their customers.  Hundreds, if not thousands, of their
customers are running proxies and mail servers with little or no
security.  The vast majority of these proxies and relays were allowing
mail relaying and proxied usenet posting (proxy everything, for that
matter).  Very nasty.  They were facing UDP and probably other
sanctions.  @home: scourge of the internet.

Aaron

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