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Blocking MX query
----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us>
> > I'm a bad subscriber, Bill?
>
> Okay, fair enough. There are no good users *expecting* to send email
> direct to a remote port 25 from behind a NAT. There are some good
> users who occasionally run slightly sloppy configurations which might
> attempt spurious port 25 connections.
I do, in fact, expect that. You're alleging that's a bad practice.
> Good to block port 25. Not good to knee-jerk ban users whose machines
> happen to poke the port once or twice.
I wasn't even talking about banning or blocking me. I was, as you'll see
in my other response, exercising the end-to-end architecture of the
Internet, as members of this list regularly exhort that I should be able
to.
"This is why we can't have nice things" is not, actually, a sufficiently
useful excuse for me to not agree with that principle.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra at baylink.com
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