Does the name 'Ed Kelleher' ring any bells?

Huw Davies huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
Fri Sep 3 17:37:10 CDT 2004


On 03/09/2004, at 3:42 AM, Jay West wrote:

>> Indeed.  But only fools react to open relays by blacklisting an entire
>> ISP domain, as (I think) ORBS has done.
>
> Blocking a whole domain is silly, to me at least from the ISP 
> prospective. I
> defend an end client's right to do so though.

ISTR that at one stage all of .au was blacklisted by one of the 
Blacklisting services.

My ISP blocks outgoing port 25 connections but my e-mail provider (not 
my ISP but a very
nice VMS cluster) is now accessible on another (secured) port.

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