[51921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Sep 10 13:32:19 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 17:30:22 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.2.2.20020910100348.03b81008@jay.songbird.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> At 08:20 PM 9/9/2002 +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> >outbound SMTP should be blocked for any dynamic or dialup source within
>
> One of the basic problems with discussions about spam control is that it
> focuses entirely on spam. Blocking output SMTP from individual dial-ups
> has a serious negative consequence:
>
> Laptop mobile users cannot use their home SMTP server.
Why are mobile laptop users NOT using ssl/esmtp ? This uses port 587 or
425 or something like that... additionally, it provides authenitcation for
the connection. Atleast in small scenarios it works beautifully.
