Spam coming through Bluewin ADSL is not something new.
Doing whatever action to stop spam in an early stage (aka years ago) would not had result in a shitload of support calls.
But the guys at Swisscom waited long enough to implement this, so they don’t deserve my empathy...

I know enough ISPs which implemented the “forced own SMTP” already on dial-in accesses (so you see which decade I’m talking about).

Finally I just wonder which alternative ISP will the swiss-spammers choose to continue to mess up the internet.
Keep looking your spam-filter logs for a mass shift :-)

Daniele

On 3/8/10 2:26 PM, "rainer@ultra-secure.de" <rainer@ultra-secure.de> wrote:

Blocking port 25 for *everybody* will just help to induce one shitstorm of
a support-nightmare. It doesn't even make a difference if you have a
grace-period or not (people ignore this stuff anyway).
Steven can probably provide numbers about how many people are still using
25 vs. 587.
It's probably millions.
What happens if millions of people call the support-hotline....?

Yep, I hate the privacy implications. But with 100k abuse complaints/month
- what would you do, besides going postal?

The only thing that could be done is a government-mandate to cut-off
people with zombies in their LANs from the net and have a state-licensed
PC-techie come over and clean-out the PC(s). For 200 CHF per hour. Plus 37
CHF     court costs and administrative fees. ;-)


It works for cars, so it should work for PCs, too, right?
;-)



Rainer


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