[RndTbl] Shaw now blocking SMTP port 25

Trevor Cordes trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Tue May 29 09:12:21 CDT 2007


On 23 May, Sean Cody wrote:
> Look at the situation from their perspective, this is the literally  
> cheapest way to solve a problem and this will only affect a small  
> minority of their customers.

Ah, but it really only solves the problem if the majority of ISP's do
the same, and even then the spammers will find some way around it
eventually.

> Was there any notification of the change?
> If there was no notification then I'm very sad and wonder why they  
> have such terrible administration policies.

There was zero notification, just like when MTS did it.  Just one day
they unilaterally block a port.



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