[69534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Apr 14 05:18:38 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:17:47 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <c5irk3$pmq$1@news.cistron.nl>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>That was solved 6 years ago. You let them use port 587 instead of 25.
>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html
>
>
How many MUAs default to port 587? How many even know about 587 and give
it as an option other than fill-in-the-blank?
...back to the computer literacy requirement again...
How many support calls you get by requiring 587 instead of 25?
Pete
