>> Shutting it down won't curb spam or viruses, it'll just take away a privacy tool.
So bad seed ISPs in Asia are a problem so bad that we
want to block all of Asia, while an open relay closer to home is a privacy tool??
It may be necessary to eventually threaten those ISPs with being blocked, but still there are a lot of *constructive* steps that could be used to help the situation.
**Like actually bothering to translate your contact messages into various non-English languages. After all, when was the last time You, as a sysadmin, responded to an informative message to postmaster@your.org that was written in an Asian language?? I didn't think so...
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>> Shutting it down won't curb spam or viruses, it'll just take away a privacy tool.
So bad seed ISPs in Asia are a problem so bad that we want to block all of Asia, while an open relay closer to home is a privacy tool??
It may be necessary to eventually threaten those ISPs with being blocked, but still there are a lot of *constructive* steps that could be used to help the situation.
**Like actually bothering to translate your contact messages into various non-English languages. After all, when was the last time You, as a sysadmin, responded to an informative message to postmaster@your.org that was written in an Asian language?? I didn't think so...