[51391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kristoff)
Mon Aug 26 19:11:44 2002
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:13:46 -0500
From: John Kristoff <jtk@depaul.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00e701c24d54$48143270$420d640a@unfix.org>
Reply-To: jtk@aharp.is-net.depaul.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:59:49 +0200
"Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> Nice rant Randy, but if you even ever wondered why the wording "Mail
> Relay" exists you might see that if an
> ISP simply forwards all outgoing tcp port 25 traffic to one of their
> relays and protects that from weird spam
The point is that 25 is just a number. You'll eventually be blocking
all numbers sooner or later (and re-inventing dumb terminals).
John
