OT: spammers are using my domain again

[Phillip T. George]

Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:

>On Fre, 2004-10-08 at 22:18 -0500, Phillip T. George wrote:
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>>Most likely your ISP is blocking outgoing (& incoming) port 25...SMTP.  
>>Its a common and wise trend with ISPs.
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>It's neither common nor wise, they just try to force you to use their
>SMTP server so they can read your mail and you either cannot use your
>provider independent e-mail addresses or their spamming customers can
>abuse them too.
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>It is also a very common problem that a big provider has had some
>spamming customers that abused his smtp relay which is therefore
>legitimately listed in rbl blacklists.
>
>Tom
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Tom,

HA.  Do you think your ISP really needs you to use their SMTP server 
JUST so they can read your email?  Its becoming more and more common 
each day, and I think its not that much of a sacrfice to make, so that 
there is less spam in the world (or at least less spam sources).  ALSO, 
most ISPs that offer a businss service remove this restriction.  You 
also may be able to call and make a personal request to have it turned 
on, just depends upon on the ISP.

-Phillip