Re: My ISP closed some ports need help!

Anonymous wrote: 
I don't agree with the rest.

Blocking port 25, or any other port for that matter, is not a "service to us all". It's a brain dead approach that ISPs choose - especially
the big sleazes (we all know who). The reasons are simple. First, just like all good 'Amerikan 'Korporations these 'daze, they've downsized, rightsized, off-shored, and otherwise dumbed-down their technical staff to a gaggle of minimum wage oompa loompas who have been programmed like automatons to believe ctrl-alt-del is the solution to every problem.
yep! Bill Gates would sell keyboards with ONLY ctrl-alt-del :-)
Sensible computer scientists have put forward many well thought out approaches to effectively thwart spammers (DKIM, SPF, and TLS to name a few),
> but the upper echelon at most major ISPs won't spend the money to
implement one or more of them because it's more profitable sit on their duffs and exploit customer ignorance. 
  not true.  these techniques can still be defeated will sufficient
  motivation and effort, so why expend $$$ for a partial solution?

> Second, it creates an opportunity to
upcharge ("server class" as you call it) for nothing (which is what they do best, nothing that is).
well this has some foundation, but I doubt you understand the complexity of giving an SLA of 99.999% reliability, performing hot cutover, and fully falut tolerant operations. I'll just say, I'm greatful I'm not on-call 24/7 any longer!

To call it pathetic would be an act of kindness, to call it an unfair and deceptive trade practice would be legally accurate, and to call it a string of four letter words would be a bullseye.

- N
- Why do I post anonymously? Because evidence and argument should stand on it's own merit and not be biased by who said it.


1) it would be nice to see some 'merit' instead of 'rant'
2) having written software for 37 years, I've been "downsized,
rightsized, off-shored" and have far more insight than this political
rant
3) you have no understanding of the spam problem and how difficult it is to fix it now that the horse is out of the barn. The RIGHT solution is all new email software world-wide, but that will never happen. The alternatives are closing open relay systems and techniques to verify the sender (which to date have all been defeated).

Suffice it to say, we all have opinions and I'll keep mine and you're welcome to have yours.

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