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Stories and comments across the archive that link to projectgamma.com.

Stories · 3

  1. They Blocked My SMTP, Now What?

    Ask · Spam · · posted by Cliff · from the is-the-solution-worse-than-the-disease dept. · 132 comments
    mindsuck asks: "As of this Wednesday, my ISP blocked my port 25, leaving my mailserver useless to the outside world as a consequence of spammers and their nasty worms. So I decided to ask the nice people of Slashdot. What can I do now to restore my smtp service, besides changing ISPs, is there a obscure way to run a mailserver off a non-standard port? What about services similar to those provided by dyndns.org for this kind of situations? Pros and Cons of using this services? Should I move my MX to a more 'stable' server than my homegrown one?" This topic was last touched upon in this article, from 2002. It's been over a year since SMTP blocks have become commonplace. Have you noticed a slowdown in your SPAM? Are ISP SMTP blocks really helping the problem? Updated: It looks like Charter is also blocking SMTP. Might there be a way to work with your ISP to get them to unblock port 25 for you, if you can sufficiently satisfy them that you are not a spammer?

    Krondor wrote in with a similar query: "Charter Communications (in my area) has blocked outbound SMTP connections. I need to be able to send Email to other SMTP servers, besides theirs, for a number of legitamate reasons. My question is this; How can I either still send SMTP to the places I need to, or how can I convince Charter to unblock outbound SMTP (I can understand blocking inbound SMTP without ACK bit set)? They do provide a relay, but won't my messages get labelled as SPAM if I use that? I am also concerned because, this relay is not encrypted with SSL and I don't necessarily trust Charter with that."

  2. A Patchy Server Gets Attention

    Tech · Apache · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the stuff-to-read dept. · 0 comments
    Project Gamma writes,"In this Wired News report they give credit to Apache, naming it one of the most overlooked yet one of the most successful Open Source projects. (Paraphrased) "

  3. Nifty Kitchen Appliances

    Tech · Technology · · posted by emmett · from the food-a-rack-a-cycle dept. · 166 comments
    Project Gamma writes "Techserver reports about how being lazy just got easier. Too lazy to read the directions on that TV dinner? Soon you may not have to. Your microwave oven will do it for you with the swipe of the package bar code across a special sensor." Okay, fine, but will it E-mail me when it wants me to stir it?