[ale] Bellsouth to Speakeasy?

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> 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.

Telnet is going out 23.

> 
> 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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