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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Lazy network operators
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Randy Bush wrote: > >> maybe we can get reasonable security without a police state? > > What will the jack-booted-thugs do then? :) > > tell us how to close down other parts of the net so they can > control and profit from them Ah-ha! too bad that mean old IAB says we can't filter traffic :) (or advises against it, or thinks it's a bad idea...) In all seriousness, the consumer dial/broadband folks had to take actions like port/25 filtering (inbound and outbound actually) to address spam issues with these systems. This is unfortunate for those folks out there that 'need' smtp access to something other than the blessed email servers of their dial/broadband provider(s). Making a more sensible solution for email than the current SMTP, or finding a middle ground that works for dial/broadband users would sure be nice. Any 'port 25' filtering is really just a short term solution until all spambots use locally configured SMTP settings to bypass the filtering :( (atleast that seems to be the case with the spamwar in general, a constantly escalating war of technologies) Perhaps finding a way to make spam non-profitable, or to put enough of the high-end spammers in jail? this seems like a daunting task I must admit :( -Chris
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