[TriLUG] OT broadband question

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:32, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Yes Sir,
> 
> Earthlink's policy is to block port 25 for all dial, DSL, and cable
> customers.
> Mindspring used to do this and when Earthlink absorbed them a couple
> years ago they adopted the policy.
> The intent is to limit the spam that might otherwise originate from
> Earthlink customers.
> 
> Details on their policy may be found at
> http://help.earthlink.net/port25/
> Though some of the language on this page seems to indicate that this is
> only for dial users rest assured that the blocking is not transport
> technology dependant.  DSL and cable users will "benefit" just as much
> as dial users from this filtering.  

I have Earthlink Cable through Time Warner, and port 25 is *not*
blocked, either outgoing or incoming.  I have not checked it with
dialup.

--Jeremy