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join:2002-04-06
Dalhousie, NB | reply to Anonymous Name
Re: Same old story. said by Anonymous Name:
I have a hosting account which offers smtp and pop access. Blocking port 25 would limit my use of the hosting account, which is not right.
It's my belief that I have a right to use the external mail services that I have paid for. Not only is it more reliable, but helps me to reduce spam. End users should be in control, not some corporation that uses profits as their only motivation.
Blocking port 25 would be unfortunate, but it's hard to say whether it would be right or wrong. From your writing, it appears that you're concerned about what hasn't happened yet. It might, but then when it became an actual problem, you might figure out an alternative.
You can believe in your rights all you wish. However, your beliefs and my beliefs do not come close to agreeing. That's OK. We have different points of view on the subject. I understand your point of view decently enough. I have a similar distrust in spam filtering, which is why I don't deploy it on our mailservers and leave the spam filtering to the customers.
My overall belief (or point of view) is that if I pay money for something and that something does not please me, then I have the right to stop paying for that something and get something else.
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So I pay money for my off-site hosting, and now I can't use it because every ISP in the world has blocked port 25 on their cable modems; perhaps I would ask my off-site hosting to open port 24 (gee, they might already because this port 25 thing is not a new problem!) for me.
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