<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:58 AM, solarflow99 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solarflow99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">solarflow99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
and they don't block port 25 by the looks of it. I think many ISPs already blacklist it though since mail barely ever comes in or makes it out to the destination.<br>Anyone still getting probed for open ports? I used to get authorized scans years ago, not sure how they check for that now. </blockquote>
<div><br>Rogers used to block port 25. If they no longer do I'd consider that a regression. Let's face it -- the ship has sailed on home SMTP servers; the overwhelming majority of mail traffic originating from home machines is spam from Windows malware, and I for one think it's a good thing for ISPs to block it.<br>
<br>Besides which, most of those IP blocks are on various blacklists anyway, making use of a home SMTP server highly unreliable. <br></div></div>