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Stop the bots
Kelly Martin, 2006-04-18

Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?

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Stop the bots 2006-04-20
Concerned Citizen
Actually ISPs blocking outbound port 25 is a bad thing. It violates the dumb network/smart edges design philosophy and oddly enough probably ends up contributing MORE to spam than stopping it.

Every ISP I've seen that does this requires users to use Outlook or Outlook Express's "POP Auth before ...

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