[69514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Apr 13 21:28:49 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040414003644.2B5157B44@berkshire.research.att.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:28:08 -0400
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>At 8:36 PM -0400 4/13/04, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>Now assume that someone in some strange and wondrous part of the world
>has a similar need. Are they authorized? According to whom?
Steve, you're authorized if you say you are and agree to accept responsibility.
Most corporations would readily provide the addresses of their mail servers;
anyone on DSL or cable connection could do the same. But by changing the
default behavior to block port 25 until requested, you could readily address the
spam problem. It would take some work on the part of operator community
(hence the subject), and doesn't fit in the world wide commune perspective
of networking, but it would make the Internet far more useful for everyone.
/John