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> As a user, I pay my ISP to forward IP packets. If there happen to be TCP > segments in those packets, that's something between me and the person the > packet is addressed to, ... ...and, occasionally, your ISP's "abuse desk." If this function of your ISP costs less than 1 FTE per 10,000 dialups or 1,000 T1's or 100 T3's, then your ISP is a slacker and probably a magnet for professional spammers as well. If they want to do some simple things to keep the "slacker" cutoff point at those numbers rather than other numbers which are 90% smaller, you'll understand the economics. If one of those simple things is blocking outbound TCP/25, then I hope you have alternatives including changing ISP's... ...but if you don't, then it's between you and your ISP, and best of luck. -- Paul Vixie
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