[69505] in North American Network Operators' Group

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Re: Lazy network operators

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Apr 13 16:33:33 2004

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <p06020405bca1f3fdfaac@[192.168.1.101]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, John Curran wrote:
>    I'm very much suggesting blocking outward to the Internet port 25
>    traffic, except from configured mail relays for that end-user site.
>    Those hosts which have MSTP malware are stopped cold as a result.

NNTP is set up almost everywhere with configured server to server
connections, and essentially all "open" NNTP user access has been
closed down over the years.

How is the spam problem on USENET these days?



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