On 2014-03-13 15:00, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
It is plain stupid.
The "antibot policy" is a fallacy. They do not care about stopping bots, they want you to stop setting servers on your connection without paying them (more).
Off-topic, but this might very from place to place - ISPs do care about getting blacklisted. With spambots on your network, that'll happen quite quickly and next your support line will be jammed with callers.
Maybe. My ISP prefers not to care. If they block 25, then they have to provide and handle mail relay, which they do not want, anyway. Too much work. They are no more providing mail service, as it is: only those clients that have it, keep it. No more new client mail addresses. Need mail? Use gmail, hotmail, etc. If there are spam bots on the client side, so be it. /Their/ mail hosts are on a different network, so not affected. And as you are not supposed to have servers, you can not complain if your IP is blacklisted. If you pay for a server connection with a fixed IP, then they treat you differently. As it is, they don't block any port whatsoever. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)