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Re: Unplugging spamming PCs


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:14:58 +0300


Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote:


Proactive would be blocking port 25 except to comcast.net's mail servers,
at least on retail users without static IPs, and then opening it up if
the customer cannot work around it by using comcast's mail server to send
out. Thats what responsible ISPs have done.
No, that would be punishing before the crime happened. Responsible would be to punish swiftly after the fact, but not before.

Pete


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