Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: What the Heck? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:02:58 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Excuse me? How the hell do you expect them to "clean up their act" when > their "dialup" users are the problem? Are you gonna scan 250,000 machines > to make sure they aren't running SMTP servers? Trap all port 25 traffic?
FreeServe in the UK have over 3 million dialup users and no spam problem.
> It's the same problem EVERY ISP has. RR is just higher profile because > of the number of users. Cable/DSL are unlike traditional dialup in that > you are always connected as long as the machine is on.
Then they need more competant admins. It isnt _hard_ to transproxy outgoing smtp traffic via a spamtrapper that checks for valid src/destination and headers.
Alan
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