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Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

  • From: alex
  • Date: Tue Sep 10 15:15:00 2002 
> and bypassing firewalls is an excellent way to get into BIG trouble with
> whomever is running the firewall.  It is irrelevant how ignorant that
> person might be about the traffic which passes through their firewall.
> I'm sure if they were only slightly less ignorant they'd run a strict
> HTTP gateway on port 80 of their firewall and then you'd be stuck
> wrappging everything up to look like proper HTTP in order to bypass
> their firewall.  It is better that you learn to negotiate the access you
> need than to have to resort to using covert channels which could get you
> busted.

Steno is a great thing, so it wont get anyone busted.

Alex