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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:59:49 +0200 "Jeroen Massar" <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice rant Randy, but if you even ever wondered why the wording "Mail > Relay" exists you might see that if an > ISP simply forwards all outgoing tcp port 25 traffic to one of their > relays and protects that from weird spam The point is that 25 is just a number. You'll eventually be blocking all numbers sooner or later (and re-inventing dumb terminals). John
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