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Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?
- From: Christopher X. Candreva
- Date: Fri Feb 25 18:24:14 2005
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, just me wrote:
> Most ISPs don't watch logs for the signs of abuse now, why would
> they magically change their behavior and monitor logs if they
> required auth? Just because there is more of an audit trail doesn't
> mean that it will be used.
Because now the server sending viruses is their outgoing mail server, which
will get blocked via the various DNSBL's instead of the end-user machine,
which should be much more of an incentive t clean things up.
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Chris Candreva -- chris@westnet.com -- (914) 967-7816
WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
http://www.westnet.com/
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