[ale] Bellsouth to Speakeasy?

[John Wells]

Pardon me for jumping in as well, but I'm on Bellsouth and can reach any
box running smtp via port 25.  If they were blocking outbound 25, I
wouldn't be able to telnet to other boxes' port 25, correct?  I can.

just fyi ;-)

HTH,
John



Jason Day said:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:56:55PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>> David Corbin wrote:
>> >Geoffrey wrote:
>> >
>>
>> >>I guess it depends on your point of view.  They are blocking port 25
>>  then, just providing you a service to use for that purpose.   But
>> some  folks prefer to run their own mail server.
>> >
>> >
>> >But I *AM* running my own mail server.  In fact, I have two SMTP
>> servers  running, and an IMAP server.
>>
>> So then they're not blocking your port 25.
>
> Pardon me for jumping in, but I believe they block port 25 *outbound*,
> not inbound.  The reason for doing this is to force people to use their
> ISP's SMTP server to send mail, which virtually eliminates spam coming
> from that ISP's network.  If all ISPs did this it would probably cut
> down the spam quite a bit.
>
> Jason
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