Re: Current status?

Bill Gunshannon skrev:
In article <hPXxk.13$ia.10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Santos <john@xxxxxxx> writes:
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
I'm on Verizon FIOS at home and I know the FIOS converter box
is a router and does NAT and some level of filtering, so inbound
port 25 traffic wouldn't make it to my LAN (or single computer
if that was all I had) unless I actively reconfigure it to pass
port 25 to a designated host (the default is "block"), but I
don't know if the same applies to Comcast cable modems. (FIOS
is point-to-point to the central office, like DSL, so local
"LAN" traffic isn't a separate issue like it would be with
Comcast.) In other words, blocking at the upstream router or
at my home would be equally effective with FIOS or DSL, but
for Comcast, only blocking at the home would catch everything.

Inbound port 25 to your machine is not the source of SPAM, outbound
from your machine, which has no business sending email to anyone but
your local MTA for relaying, to the INTERNET in general is. It doesn't
require blocking at the user level, just at the border of the email domain
which is your ISP.

Just thought I'd throw in a torch here, and then I'll be quiet again.

I just totally hate ISPs that block port 25. The less I have to deal with an ISP, the better my life works. They are *clowns* and I for one am not interested in letting them handling my mail traffic if I can avoid it.

Spam is definitely a scurge, but letting the ISPs get monopoly on mail is not the solution.

And as others have pointed out, the fact that a whole bunch of ISPs now block port 25 haven't reduced spam one bit. Don't kill the messenger when the message is junk. Find the originator instead. That's where your problem is, and that is where you need to apply the fix. Otherwise the spammer will just continue, finding new ways of spreading their junk.

Jail them. Confiscate their money and their business. That would stop spam. Not much else will.

People who think that blocking ports is a solution to the spam problem are just plain ignorant.

Thank you for your time. I now let you go back to your spamming. :-)

Johnny

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