From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Michael Monnerie wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Meanwhile, I do think that filtering outgoing mail from such places
> as open internet nodes at hotels and other places like that is
> probably a good thing. But simply tagging by itself does not seem
> useful to me.
It's a legal thing: You are not allowed to throw away e-mail from your
customers, they could sue you. Yes, false positives, right...
But these same places now usually require a click through license to
accept their terms. So they should be okay based upon that, no? I
only see that with hotels so far. Most coffee shops are still
completely open. Personally I would block all outgoing port 25
traffic.
And you'd probably get someone as volatile as I am attacking you
with any handy rolling pin size and heft object they could find.
When travelling I use port 25 for authenticated smtp with Earthlink.
(Of course, I think Earthlink has been smart enough to set up a
port 587 mail submission port. But I don't want to bet on it yet.)
Verizon seems to block 25 except to get to Earthlink or whatever
other ISP may be registered for DSL connections. That has me
irritated enough that experienceing it on the road would drive
me ballistic.
{^_^}
