[78262] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher X. Candreva)
Fri Feb 25 18:23:40 2005
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:23:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0502251506460.29345@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, just me wrote:
> Most ISPs don't watch logs for the signs of abuse now, why would
> they magically change their behavior and monitor logs if they
> required auth? Just because there is more of an audit trail doesn't
> mean that it will be used.
Because now the server sending viruses is their outgoing mail server, which
will get blocked via the various DNSBL's instead of the end-user machine,
which should be much more of an incentive t clean things up.
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