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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Andy Pitts wrote: > I too, am a small Internet Service Provider, and I too, don't want > to block sites that my users may want to access. But there seems > to be a few domains that do nothing but generate spam. Am I not > providing a service to my users if I prevent them from being > smothered with spam from those sites? The issue is that there are ISPs that have filters such that their dialup customers cannot talk to port 25/tcp of systems elsewhere on the net. Customers have to use the provider's SMTP servers. The question is, is this a good thing? I don't think anyone would argue against UUNet and PSI doing this with the *.ms.uu.net dialups or the *.pub-isp.psi.net...but would you do this on your own network? I've blocked 4 ms.uu.net /16's and 12 pub-isp.psi.net /24's from talking directly to FDT's mail servers. Unfortunately, most of the junk from PSI is relayed through other sites anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/message. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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