[176485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Mon Dec 1 08:22:14 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:22:08 +0000
In-Reply-To: <547A01E3.1030702@vaxination.ca>
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On 11/29/14, 12:26 PM, "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
wrote:
>However, in the case of SMTP, due to the amount of spam, most ISPs break
>"network neutrality" by blocking outbound port 25 for instance
Whatever Net Neutrality may mean this week, it is usually intended to
allow for reasonable network management practices, including preventing
network abuse. In the case of port blocking, it is permissible provided it
is disclosed transparently.
- Jason
