Re: hostIPv6. was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

"John R. Levine" <[email protected]> 18 Mar 2013 13:19:00 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The general solution for "dialup" (adsl/etc) accounts is to disallow traffic 
> going outside the network to port 25 and to provide a centralised mail 
> gateway service.
>
> I see no reason this can't be done in a hosting environment as well.

There are certainly hosting companies that do that.  I get buckets of spam 
from 1&1/perfora, all via a few smarthosts.  It's extremely annoying, 
because there is enough real mail through those hosts that I can't block 
them completely.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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