Boomerang86
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OOL has crappy mail servers already. Now they expect people who use outside mail servers to switch back? I think not. |
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kpatz
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| Once again, I have to say, blocking ports across the board only masks the symptoms, it does NOT solve the underlying problem.
It's better to identify and disconnect zombied systems. Even with port 25 blocked, zombies can still do a lot of damage, such as DDoS attacks. And as this tactic becomes more popular, spammers will just find other ways to get their crap out, so it doesn't stop spam either.
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Steve
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| said by kpatz  :
Once again, I have to say, blocking ports across the board only masks the symptoms, it does NOT solve the underlying problem.
The underlying problem is that "lots of users are idiots", and I don't think that's an ISP's problem to solve.
Steve
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drake
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said by Boomerang86 :
OOL has crappy mail servers already. Now they expect people who use outside mail servers to switch back? I think not.
I don't know about crappy mail servers, ever since I've been a subscriber with their service(Since December 2003), I haven't had any issue with their servers or even getting mail; So far, I've been satisfied...
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I think it is a good short term solution to slow down the spammers. You are correct that they will find ways around it but at least it will break what they have in place for the moment.
In the long term ISP's need to force the responsibility on the end users (by making it part of their TOS) and take them offline of they don not fix their zombie computers.
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