Re: Administrative Overheads Arising from UCE
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:44:39 +0100 (MET)
> >> Why don't you just disable incoming connections to the port 25 for your dialup
> >> users? You'd get much less hassle.
>
> Read again what I wrote. Incoming connections to port 25. This would protect
> the user from his own mistakes. It wouldn't prohibit him from connecting to
> outside smtp servers. If you want to deliver mail to this customer, and he is
> running smtp server on his dialup line, you can allow your smtp servers to
> connect to port 25 on the dialup line. But as Cor suggested, this might not be
> feasible.
Ok I stand corrected, still this is riot stuff.
Customers will not accept it.
I even doubt we'll be able to actually implement it.
Adding MX records is a bad thing in the fight against spam,
gives the spammer a too easy spot to drop a load of spam without real
verification slowing him down.
(the not final destination does not know if users are good or not, and
accept it for all possible users, some of the spammers try to guess all
possible user names it seems ....)
SWA
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