Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:37:41 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net (jack) Cc: gjp@in-addr.com (Gary Palmer), n@nectar.com (Jacques Vidrine), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) Message-ID: <199909252337.QAA08637@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251912510.17474-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> from jack at "Sep 25, 1999 07:16:58 pm"
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> Today Gary Palmer wrote:
>
> > It doesn't, but direct-inject and relay-rape spam is a major problem.
> > How do you propose that large ISPs combat abuse of their dialups to
> > create this problem? Forcing the spam to go through their own SMTP
> > servers, where it can be logged, tracked, rate limited and noticed
> > much earlier is a BIG step in the right direction. UU Net is doing
> > this for all of their resold dialups because of the major problems
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > they had.
>
> This is the second time I've heard that UUnet is blocking port 25
> from their dialups. The number of connections from *.da.uu.net
> that I continue to reject make me think it is an urban legand. :(
Keyword is ``resold'', it wont be from *.uu.net.
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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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