Comcast Port 25 Blocks Result In Less Spam

Dozix007 writes "Ars Technica reports that: 'After Comcast finally owned up to the massive amounts of spam coming from their network, they decided to identify spammers and zombie relays on their network and block port 25 traffic from those IP addresses. Comcast's efforts are starting to pay off. They announced the amount of spam from their network has dropped 35 percent since they began port blocking and traffic estimates from SenderBase seem to confirm the claims. Spam coming from Comcast subscribers who were formerly on AT&T networks also seems to have decreased'."

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Re:Slashdot Quiz

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

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Thanx.

Probably Already Been Said

[SolidiusRock]

That aside, I find this to be a double edged sword. On one note, we see that spam is going bye-bye, on another... we're losing what the internet is. Completely open to all the world is what the internet became, but is no longer. Now we have ISP's dictating what ports we can use, and what we can't. Provided that this is a business and you're "buying" a service, it's generally nigh impossible for the average joe to just jump on the internet all by his lonesome without having to pay and arm and a leg for a dedicated, unbridled line... As such, there should be laws in place to protect what the internet is, yet give appropriate power to stop things like spam and kiddie porn.