Comcast Gets Tough on Spam

WeakGeek writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Comcast, the nation's largest broadband ISP, has started blocking port 25 to reduce Spam. Jeanne Russo said Comcast is not blocking port 25 for all its users because it does not want to remove the option for legitimate customers who process their own e-mail. So the company is monitoring traffic and picking out machines that look suspicious. By blocking port 25, they say they cut Spam by 20% last week." ZDnet has another article, with a nice statistic: Comcast generates 800 million email messages/day, but only about 100 million of those are sent through Comcast's SMTP servers.

Comments

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[Laivincolmo]

I still don't understand how spam exists economically. I guess people are dumber than I thought:
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Largest in the nation?

[azzy]

I never knew Comcast was the largest ISP in the UK.

Oh.. your nation.. not my nation?

Sorry, I forgot there was no other part of the world.

education is the solution

[Anonymous Coward]

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