METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

[John Abreau]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> This is not technical incompetence. This is a decision that's being
> made, which has numerous reasonable reasons behind it -- 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).
> 

That same logic could apply to *ALL* email, everywhere. Most email, 
everywhere, is spam, and by that logic, *ALL* email should be completely 
shut down.

Blocking port 25 is not an acceptable approach in either case.

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