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

[James Knott]

David Payne wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Do they block out bound or in bound?  I thought they didn't want stuff 
coming in from off net and using their servers as a relay.

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