On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:26:49PM -0400, Brian Lloyd wrote: > From: Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Sending emails at hotspots > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:26:49 -0400 > > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > However, many hotspots block outgoing connections to *anyone's* port 25, > > which was the topic sentence of (at least part of) this thread. > > I would expect that from a public, open hotspot. I can imagine that > a for-pay hotspot; e.g. Starbucks, Boingo, etc.; might allow it as > they could track back the activity and people paying for service expect > better service. Regardless, the owness is on the user to come up with > a good way to send mail that is divorced from the access provider.
Alas, that doesn't seem to be good enough to keep spammers from using disposable *dialup* accounts... Cheers, -- jr 'onus' a -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
