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Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Tue Sep 17 13:57:53 2002

In-Reply-To: <200209171700.g8HH01AC005181@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:46:12 +0200
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 1:00 PM -0400 2002/09/17, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

>>  	I imagine if you could get cisco (and other vendors) to fix their
>>  transparent proxy server software to be more intelligent, that would
>>  fix the problem.
>
>  I suppose suggesting the use of port 587 would be pointless? ;)

	Yup.  He's specifically talking about the blocking of port 25. 
Talking about any other ports is besides the point.

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