Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Mar 1, 2015, at 14:01 , John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Well, actually, it does.  Every broadband network in the US
> > > > > currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, that's not entirely true.  (Very) recent direct-to-MX spam
> > > > from Comcast customers:
> > >
> > > Well, it's supposed to be blocked, according to people I've talked to
> > > at Comcast and T-W as recently as a week ago.  I can believe that they
> > > have configuration problems on a networks of that size.
> >
> > fairly certain that none of these folk block port 25 on their business
> > customer links.
>
> As I said above, retail customers.  Business customers get static IPs and generaly no blocking.
>
> R's,
> John

Business customers only get static from Comcast if they pay extra for it.

Owen