RE: How's this for fun?

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > > Spam generated by zombie PCs seems like a form of Internet pollution to
me.
> > > What's unreasonable about ISPs stopping pollution going out their pipes?
 
> > Their inability to distinguish between legitimate SMTP traffic and
malicious (spam) SMTP traffic.
> > That's pretty damned unreasonable in my book.

There are numerous ways for collateral damage to be avoided when ISPs block
port 25: For instance, users can use port 587 where appropriate, or ISPs can
simply whitelist users who request not to be blocked. 

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 


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