When I used to work for Astound Broadband in St. Cloud (R.I.P) we had started doing this back in late '01. It really cut down in the number of complaints I received about spam coming from our IP blocks. Yes its a total PITA for those of us who actually know what we are doing and want greater flexability/usability of our internet services but for the ISP and most of its idiotic virus infested Windows users it ends up being a good thing. Just think about the thousands of Windows drones that are no longer sending out crap tons of useless email. Just my .02 -Adam Dave Carlson wrote: > I can still both initiate and recieve SMTP traffic from both of my Comcast > (Eagan, Minneapolis) hosts. > > I can't see this persisting too long. A lot of people don't have or use > Comcast accounts and this would be a dealbreaker. > > They already monitor for email drones - I don't know why they would need this. > > -Dave > > On Tuesday 03 April 2007 22:31:07 Jon Schewe wrote: > >> Has anyone else run across this? As of today I'm no longer able to send >> mail through my mailserver (mtu.net) port 25 as comcast is blocking all >> outgoing connections on port 25 for "my protection". >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >