[178636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sun Mar 1 17:01:38 2015
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Date: 1 Mar 2015 17:01:32 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
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>>>> Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US
>>>> currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, that's not entirely true. (Very) recent direct-to-MX spam
>>> from Comcast customers:
>>
>> Well, it's supposed to be blocked, according to people I've talked to
>> at Comcast and T-W as recently as a week ago. I can believe that they
>> have configuration problems on a networks of that size.
>
> fairly certain that none of these folk block port 25 on their business
> customer links.
As I said above, retail customers. Business customers get static IPs and
generaly no blocking.
R's,
John
