Comcast blocking port 25? (not what you think)

[Travis Roy]

bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, at 10:53am, travis at scootz.net wrote:
> 
>>>>Yah, that's what I'm going to have to do.. BLAH.. stupid comcast.
>>>
>>> 
>>>  Get used to it.  More and more ISPs are adding this.  And I cannot say I
>>>entirely disagree with the policy.
>>
>>Why?
> 
> 
>   Mail abuse.  A great deal of spam and other mail abuse comes from
> computers on consumer feeds that are incorrectly configured as a mail relay
> (don't ask me how, but it happens more often then you would think), or have
> been compromised by some kind of malware and are being used as same.  At the
> same time, SMTP was designed to move mail between static, well-connected
> systems.  Hosts on dynamic, consumer feeds do not meet that definition. 

My parents are not running any kind of server.

> It
> makes more sense for such hosts to submit mail to a smart host which can do
> the job right.

That is exactly what they are trying to do, send the mail to my server 
so I can do the job of dealing with their mail.