Re: Complain against comcast

["Bill Horne-9" <user=27@nabble.blu.org>]

 Tom Metro wrote: 
> Matt Shields wrote: 
>> Possibly, but there are legitimate reason not to block it and not 
>> everyone is using it to spam. 
> 
> That's perhaps an understatement. :-) 
> 
> 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.