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Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques
From: Gaurab Raj Upadhaya <gaurab () lahai com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:05:54 +0100
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Owen DeLong wrote:
I'm seeing an increasing variety of misguided SPAM blocking techniques such that they are starting to become more and more annoying, and, I'm curious as to what solutions/work-arounds others have deployed, and, if anyone has any ideas on how to get these tactics reduced/stopped?
It's not just mail. These days the mantra seems to be "only allow port 80 and 443 through, the users don't need anything else." specially in situations you cite (public wifi, hotel nets etc.). In these cases, i believe even ssh won't go through. Default settings in some devices don't help either. I remember that until a few years ago, port 443 traffic was getting blocked, but enough stuffs stopped working, that 443 is now allowed everywhere. Personally, have been lucky using smtp+ssl on port 465. Doesn't work 100%, but works most of the time. thanks - gaurab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHG3jiSo7fU26F3X0RAmNWAKDoxlwaivgeKGPvczL5FpgyOV8eFgCfW2iZ 0d0ZTyWFQA53mdbSNAryYHE= =VZUx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques, (continued)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Sean Figgins (Oct 22)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Al Iverson (Oct 22)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 22)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Dave Pooser (Oct 22)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Sean Figgins (Oct 22)
- [admin] Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Alex Pilosov (Oct 22)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 21)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Al Iverson (Oct 22)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Sean Donelan (Oct 21)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Adrian Chadd (Oct 23)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Owen DeLong (Oct 23)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Jack Bates (Oct 23)
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- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Owen DeLong (Oct 23)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Dave Pooser (Oct 23)
- RE: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques David Schwartz (Oct 23)
- Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques Dave Pooser (Oct 23)