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On Jan 19, 2008 9:33 AM, Tom Metro <[hidden email]> wrote: > I'd guess that there has been a fraction of a percent of Comcast cable > modem users who have chosen to intentionally send spam. The rest are > people with poorly maintained computers that have been taken over by > zombies. That problem is easily addressed by blocking outbound port 25 > by default, but permit it to be unblocked upon request. A user who knows > enough to ask for it to be unblocked is fairly unlikely to be hosting > zombies. The STORM worm/zombie-net has been causing a lot of havoc as of late. It is highly probable that this is the reason Comcast is filtering... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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