AOL blocking Cox IPs

David A. Sinck plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:09:22 -0700


\_ SMTP quoth KevinO on 6/13/2003 12:52 as having spake thusly:
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\_ David A. Sinck wrote:
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\_ > As an amusing follow up to this, this morning I got mail saying that
\_ > cox was going to start blocking outbound connections to port 25 in an
\_ > effort to curtail spam.  Retrieval not affected.
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\_ Did you get this email directly from Cox?
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\_ Does this apply only to their 'residential' customers or are they planning on
\_ doing this with their business grade customers also?

Directly from cox, afaict residential only.  The conspiracy voice says
"it's just a matter of time".

David