[74640] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Sat Oct 9 15:13:05 2004
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 21:13:58 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>, Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410091954230.26655-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> there are many ways of sending spam that dont use port 25..
True, but reducing spam from millions to thousands seems like something
good, no?
> individual rules are costly to implement and users wont use a service where you
> have to pay more for basic services
Several big ISP's are blocking port 25 now. I believe this will catch.
It limits the amount of junk coming out from their users, and the usage
of their tubes.
I doubt even 0.001% of dynamic range Cable/DSL users will ever call to
ask for port 25 to be opened.
This is something ISP's can implement, and it works.
Gadi.
