Re: Port 25 - Blacklash

[Daniel Golding <dgolding () burtongroup com>]

Do all of Comcast's markets block port 25? Is there a correlation between
spam volume and the ones that do (or don't)?

In any event the malware is already ahead of port 25 blocking and is
leveraging ISP smarthosting. SMTP-Auth is the pill to ease this pain/

- Dan


On 4/26/05 2:49 PM, "Hank Nussbacher" <hank () mail iucc ac il> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
>
> Doesn't seem to be stemming the tide of emails from Comcast though:
<http://www.senderbase.org/?searchBy=organization&searchString=Comcast%20Cable>
> -Hank
>
> > For example, about 2 months ago, comcast decided to block outgoing
> > port 25 from my entire neighborhood. I called comcast, and while
> > sitting on hold I had the idea to setup a ssh tunnel to a machine at
> > work and viola problem solved before anyone from comcast even
> > answered the phone.