someone is using my email address to spam, is there a way to stop this ?

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, James Knott wrote:
>
>> Here's an article about the problem:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6752853.stm
>
> "Operation Bot Roast".  Who ever came up with that deserves a prize :)
>
> A lot of companies now block outbound SMTP from anywhere except their 
> legitimate MTAs but the routers used by home users don't.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
What would a home router block on?  Is this spam sent by their ISP's 
SMTP server or another?  Many ISPs block port 25 from off their 
network.  I often use Rogers SMTP server from off net, but they have 
another port number specifically for that use.


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