[51927] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Dills)
Tue Sep 10 15:00:19 2002
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:59:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>
To: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Cc: 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.
I don't think Paul meant to say blocked as in 'connection refused', I
think he meant that they should be redirected to a local machine that will
happily send their mail (with reasonable limits on number of recipients
per arbitrary time period, which all of your mail servers should have
anyway).
Andy
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