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Re: [Asrg] Re: Stinging Criticism



> [...] real protection against zombie is not that simple, ISPs would
> need to have additional equipment that will redirect all traffic from
> port 25 to their own relay servers

No, it would be enough to block port 25 connections except to their
user-submission hosts.  (Many providers do this already.)

They may _prefer_ to redirect attempts to connect elsewhere, but that's
a different issue.

Most of the rest of what you say I agree with, including the basic
point that

> ISP steps to deal with zombies is not a simple process and can be
> quite expensive for ISPs.

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