>> [email protected] wrote: >> Hi everyone >> Will we start to block completely port 25 in the future? No, >> absolutely not. > > I rather have that you actively block port 25 without any inspection and > just like you are offering now allow people to request the port to be > opened. This avoids the whole legal issue with doing a MITM. >
People are just too ... uneducated... to really get to the grips with this port 587-stuff. Blocking port 25 for *everybody* will just help to induce one shitstorm of a support-nightmare. It doesn't even make a difference if you have a grace-period or not (people ignore this stuff anyway). Steven can probably provide numbers about how many people are still using 25 vs. 587. It's probably millions. What happens if millions of people call the support-hotline....? Yep, I hate the privacy implications. But with 100k abuse complaints/month - what would you do, besides going postal? The only thing that could be done is a government-mandate to cut-off people with zombies in their LANs from the net and have a state-licensed PC-techie come over and clean-out the PC(s). For 200 CHF per hour. Plus 37 CHF court costs and administrative fees. ;-) It works for cars, so it should work for PCs, too, right? ;-) Rainer _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
