[PLUG] Spam, SMTP, and 'net censorship

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Heath" == Heath Morrison <heath at doublemarked.com> writes:

Heath> Verizon is not blocking outgoing port 25 to protect you or to control
Heath> you, they're blocking outgoing port 25 because of the abuse it exposes
Heath> them to. It obviously has no direct benefit to the end user, but it
Heath> does remove a common source of spam. This should lead to a net
Heath> reduction in spam.

A much better solution would be to forbid all Windows machines from
being attached to their network, but that isn't likely going to fly.

:-)

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