Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)

[Travis Roy]

Bruce Dawson wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 10:52, Travis Roy wrote:
> 
>>I just find it stupid that they would do something like this. It's one 
>>thing to block port 80 since running a webserver is against the AUP/TOS, 
>>but to block access to an outside mail server smells of crushing the 
>>competition and limiting choice.
> 
> 
> No more stupid than people writing viruses and spam. 
> 
> Anyone running an SMTP or web server on comcast is violating the TOS.
> All comcast is doing is shutting down these "rogue" servers to prevent
> them from being used for relaying spam and/or virus/worm propogation.
> 
> Of course, one can always give up on computers and become a farmer ;-)


Okay.. for the -LAST TIME- my parents are -NOT- I repeat are -NOT- 
running any kind of sever at all, NONE! They are trying to connect to MY 
server that is NOT on the comcast network to send mail.