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South Korea pushes spam blocking
THE SOUTH KOREAN government is asking its internet service providers (ISPs) to play ball and help it shed its international reputation as a spamming country.
A report at the BBC says that the government wants to start a national drive against spamming and has asked ISPs to sign up. Plans include restricting email sending to ISPs' servers, which could make hacked bot computers less attractive to spammers.
The plan is called "Block 25", according to the BBC and is named after the computer port number usually reserved for sending email.
There are suggestions that the block on port 25 will come into place next month, and a spokesman for the South Korean government told the BBC that this is the timeline that's planned.
Whether blocking port 25 will solve the country's spam problem remains to be seen, as does the question of whether the government took any time to consider that spammers might just use an alternate port. µ
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Port 25 is the *required* port to deliver email using the Internet mail protocol ("SMTP"). Anyone attempting to send email to a different port would be about as successful as a process server trying to serve papers on a Detroit resident while the process server was in Paris, France. Hello! There's NOBODY HOME, idiot!
Please don't criticize in your articles if you don't understand technology.
- It's about blocking outgoing port 25
- The remote hosts won't change their port
- Spammers can't change it
- Go learn smtp