Israeli ISP blocking outgoing SMTP

[Aviram Jenik]

On Monday 06 April 2009 10:55:40 ronys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the last few days, an ISP who shall remain nameless (but who's name in
> octal is equal to 11) has decided to block outgoing SMTP connections to
> servers abroad. They've done this unilaterally, without notifying
> customers, and, for the first couple of calls to support, without admitting
> anything beyond "there's a problem, we're working on it".
>

Blocking port 25 for broadband users is now considered common practice, and is 
actually advocated by many spam fighting organizations. I personally think 
it's stupid and goes against everything the Internet is about, but strangely 
enough I wasn't consulted when that decision was made. These are also the 
guys that think blacklists are a good idea.

But as far as it goes to making ISPs change their ways, it will most likely be 
the other way around - Israeli ISPs are just catching up to the unfortunate 
global standard.

On the bright side, doing that may get them removed from several blacklists 
(did I mention how stupid I thought blacklists were?)

>
> 	Rony

- Aviram