[lug] Idea for ISPs to limit spam/zombies

[Zan Lynx]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:26 -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> I was thinking about how many domains I can no longer email, due to 
> black hole lists marking my comcast servers as spam. It gets really 
> irritating to suffer because of someone else's zombie machine. An ISP 
> could block port 25 to anyone other than their own servers, but this is 
> the lobotomize approach, it isn't a real solution. So here's an idea I'm 
> wondering what people think of, especially anyone who does any kind of 
> email service...

Why not just relay your mail through the approved mail relay?  It's not
*that* painful and there's nothing inherently virtuous about sending
email directly to its destination.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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