METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:01:18PM -0500, Brian Karas wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > -- the largest being that most mail going out to port 25 from 
> > residential connections
> > *is* either spam or an exploited machine, as most users run 
> > Windows, and Windows does not use an smtpd running on 
> > localhost to send out mail (at least, not in most cases).

> Not at all.  Anyone who has their own domain, or works from home and uses
> their employers email server for outgoing mail, is sending legitimate,
> non-spam email out on port 25.

I didn't say that *all* mail going out to port 25 fit this pattern -- I
said most. And I stand by that statement: The number of zombie windows
boxes on any given network is likely higher than the number of persons
working from home on the network.

In any case, as Ed mentioned, this is most likely against the terms of
service. Unless you're paying for business class DSL, most user
agreements prohibit this type of behavior. If you got cuaght doing
something you shouldn't have been, I don't see this as metrocast's
problem.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer