spam issues

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Collins Richey:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:01:54 -0700
> Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> > The broadband providers could mitigate this problem by blocking
> > incoming traffic to their customer's systems on ports 25, 80, and
> > commonly used proxy ports.  When @HOME was running the AT&T cable
> > network, they were doing this (probably in response to ``Code Red''
> > and ``Nimda'').  When ATTBI took over they dropped these filters, and
> > COMCAST hasn't put them back.  I see dozens of relay attempts from
> > attbi/comcast every day, and add the hosts individually to our local
> 
> I've passed on your comments (the snippet above) to comcast.net.  We'll
> see whether anything comes of that.

It won't.

Kurt
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