kpatz
MY HEAD A SPLODE
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| Port 25 blocks only mask the symptoms, not the disease.
It's more of a "not in my backyard" scenario than any real anti-spam tactic. It makes the ISP in question "look" better on the Internet as a whole, but for every ISP that blocks 25, there are a dozen more that don't, especially abroad.
Even if *every* ISP in the US were to block 25, the spammers would just use servers in China, Russia, etc. And we would still be buried in spam.
The problem can only be solved at the source. Make it illegal for companies to solicit spammers for advertising, and ENFORCE that law strictly.
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SMTP: Spam and Malware Transfer Protocol. Also used on rare occasion to transmit e-mail messages. |
