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

[David Payne]

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 03:16 +0000, Robert Brockway wrote:

> It wouldn't.  I was thinking out loud a bit but it occured to me that most 
> people are using webmail these days but their local MS-Win boxes can still 
> send outbound email which is probably a lot more likely to be used by a 
> Trojan than for legit email.  So perhaps blocking the ability to send 
> outbound SMTP from home systems by default might be an interesting idea to 
> explore.  It somewhat goes against the concept of net neutrality but it 
> could be unblocked easily enough.
> 
> Rob

Hi,

I have only delt with 3 ISPs.  Two from Nova Scotia and one from here
(Rogers).  All three blocked port 25 outbound, I thought that was the
norm rather than the exception.

David

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