Yes, a good point, I was'nt thinking of a very good analogy to this, but was just trying to state, that whatever you try to do to stop it, someone out there is still going to be producing/selling it, or whatever, but i agree it is a poor analogy
The article sums it up well, but is this something that is going to ever stop? SPAM to me seems like another one of those things in life like drug dealing for instance. Whatever tactice we take to stop or outlaw it, people are always going to find a way around it. The stronger we make our SPAM filters, the more normal desired mail that is going to get blocked. DOn't get me wrong, I hate Spammers, but I dont see how any of these solutions are going to work. Thats my opinion at least, but as the article says, I suppose suing spammers might have a good effect.
they do block outgoing SMTP you fool, however if the spamed mail is coming from the machine through something like sendmail maybe, then that has nothing to do with port 25 to get the mail to AOL, SMTP, or the commonly blovked port 25 for outgoing mail from clients like outlook and such dont have anything to do with open relay servers
I had this problem months ago on my Verizon DSL, they wouldnt accept any mail from my linux box, then when I changed services to MM Internet DSL, and got a static IP with reverse DNS delegated to my machine, I was able to get mail through again, but still seriously consider blocking them anyways for their stupid actions
If you read a bit more carefully you will notice that the 200MB limitation is a service my website offers for its free subdomains, not the actuall sites limitation itself
luckily i am not on one of those evil monthly traffic bandwidth limited deals, feel free to/. my ass, but my server will probably still die nonetheless
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Yes, a good point, I was'nt thinking of a very good analogy to this, but was just trying to state, that whatever you try to do to stop it, someone out there is still going to be producing/selling it, or whatever, but i agree it is a poor analogy
The article sums it up well, but is this something that is going to ever stop? SPAM to me seems like another one of those things in life like drug dealing for instance. Whatever tactice we take to stop or outlaw it, people are always going to find a way around it. The stronger we make our SPAM filters, the more normal desired mail that is going to get blocked. DOn't get me wrong, I hate Spammers, but I dont see how any of these solutions are going to work. Thats my opinion at least, but as the article says, I suppose suing spammers might have a good effect.
they do block outgoing SMTP you fool, however if the spamed mail is coming from the machine through something like sendmail maybe, then that has nothing to do with port 25 to get the mail to AOL, SMTP, or the commonly blovked port 25 for outgoing mail from clients like outlook and such dont have anything to do with open relay servers
I had this problem months ago on my Verizon DSL, they wouldnt accept any mail from my linux box, then when I changed services to MM Internet DSL, and got a static IP with reverse DNS delegated to my machine, I was able to get mail through again, but still seriously consider blocking them anyways for their stupid actions
If you read a bit more carefully you will notice that the 200MB limitation is a service my website offers for its free subdomains, not the actuall sites limitation itself
luckily i am not on one of those evil monthly traffic bandwidth limited deals, feel free to /. my ass, but my server will probably still die nonetheless
haha, my comp class teacher had one of them