[81234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon is easily fooled by spamming zombies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Jun 1 14:15:53 2005
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:14:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <429DDF8C.6050805@linuxbox.org>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> There is no real reason why you should be able to email out with
> bush@whitehouse.gov using Verizon's own servers.
perhaps not that, but surely user@vanity.domain and if they do/have auth
info they can even see who it was when there are problems.
>
> If you are an advanced enough user to have your own vanity domain then
> you are advanced enough to have your own SMTP server. If port 25 is
> blocked, you can probably sort this out with your ISP (if said ISP is
> responsive to your needs) and/or move an ISP.
>
1) monopoly isps
2) standard config
3) lack of ability to make 1/2/3 changes here/there/everywhere (config
drift) for customers not paying more than the 'standard'.
There are other reasons of course. Also, customers with their own
SMTP/IMAP services COULD just do tcp/587 'submission'... but we covered
that ground already I think?
