METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

[Bill McGonigle]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 18:20, aluminumsulfate at earthlink.net wrote:

> That's just it.  It's NOT a valid way to reduce spam.  Just like 
> killing
> junkies is not a valid way to fight AIDS...

The trouble is the valid ways to reduce spam (like DomainKeys and SPF 
records) are very very lightly deployed and the IETF is trying to see 
to it that even they don't get accepted.  In the meantime any 
countermeasure is a hack.

>    use, then you can run a mail server on an alternate port.  Lots
>    don't block 465 (ssmtp) or 587 (alternate smtp).  In my case, since
>    I can never remember
>
> Clever.  I'll have to look into that.  And then tell all the 
> spamsters. :)

Fortunately for us most submission ports require SMTP AUTH which is 
less useful for spammers.  Maybe once all traffic is forced there we'll 
see Outlook worms spamming through valid accounts.

-Bill
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