disabling their customer's service.
Actually, subscribers have the option to "opt-out" so if you know what you're doing and WANT to use another smtp server/use port 25 for some reason you still can. A reasonable compromise between, "disabling their customer's service" and being proactive about security in my personal opinion. Not that blocking port 25 is going to be a magic bullet against all viruses/worms etc, but a start anyway.
jdmwoolley(a)ihug.co.nz wrote:
disabling their customer's service.
Actually, subscribers have the option to "opt-out" so if you know what you're doing and WANT to use another smtp server/use port 25 for some reason you still can.
At a cost I imagine. CBF researching it.
reasonable compromise between, "disabling their customer's service" and being proactive about security in my personal opinion. Not that blocking port 25 is going to be a magic bullet against all viruses/worms etc, but a start anyway.
Wrong. -- Cheers, James Clark.
On 4/19/06, James Clark <jamesc(a)bofh.co.nz> wrote:
jdmwoolley(a)ihug.co.nz wrote:
disabling their customer's service.
Actually, subscribers have the option to "opt-out" so if you know what you're doing and WANT to use another smtp server/use port 25 for some reason you still can.
At a cost I imagine.
And the encouraging prospect of getting added to a potential "problem customer" list...
On 19/04/06, James Clark <jamesc(a)bofh.co.nz> wrote:
jdmwoolley(a)ihug.co.nz wrote:
reasonable compromise between, "disabling their customer's service" and being proactive about security in my personal opinion. Not that blocking port 25 is going to be a magic bullet against all viruses/worms etc, but a start anyway.
Wrong.
There *are* worms out there which will use the outbound SMTP server, but the majority I have seen come direct to MX. Default port 25 blocking by some of the large ISPs would have cut down a lot of stuff coming in at my last gig. Besides, a lot of people are using various of the dynamic-space blocking lists these days, so you will likely have significant trouble sending mail from a bog-standard ADSL line these days. -- Jamie Riden / jamesr(a)europe.com / jamie.riden(a)computer.org "Microsoft: Bringing the world to your desktop - and your desktop to the world." -- Peter Gutmann
James Clark wrote:
jdmwoolley(a)ihug.co.nz wrote:
disabling their customer's service.
Actually, subscribers have the option to "opt-out" so if you know what you're doing and WANT to use another smtp server/use port 25 for some reason you still can.
At a cost I imagine. CBF researching it.
You "CBF researching it" but you "CBF" jumping onto a public mailing list to mouth off? Do yourself, and us, a favour. Stop.
Richard Patterson wrote:
You "CBF researching it" but you "CBF" jumping onto a public mailing list to mouth off?
I've been subscribed for over 5 years via various addresses, I'm usually a lurker.
Do yourself, and us, a favour. Stop.
Keep it on the list buddy. I've no interest in emailing you personally, why would I? -- Cheers, James Clark.
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