Re: [Nolug] Cox's idea about fighting spam

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 10:39 pm, Chuck wrote:
> Oh nevermind, Scott's message cleared it up. That seems a bit more
> reasonable. Still seems to be a jip though.

Work from home types may squeal a bit since they may need to send work the
company smtp gateways (with SMTP auth). But more than likely, they're using
IPSEC tunnels anyway, thus bypassing the outbound cox filters.

I haven't decided how I want to react to this, personally. I REALLY have a
problem with ISPs deciding what I can and cannot connect to. I realize it's
all in the AUP and I certainly can see both sides of this (1). Still I
firmly believe that customers should have a mechanism to opt out of any such
filtering.(2)

1) until recently I worked for a cable ISP. I fought vehemently against
inbound port filters. This port 25 outbound filter has precedent. when I
worked in dialup, I listed all of our dynamic dialup IP pools with certain
registries that many ISPs used to reject port 25 connections. Still, the
times are a changin'
2)Yep. this is hard. It's still the absolute right thing to do.

-- 
Scott Harney <scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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