On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> >>> It's not difficult to prevent >>> outgoing spam, >> >> The rest of the world begs to differ... If it were easy to stop spam >> there wouldn't be any spam. >> > > No, the rest of the world mostly just don't care. It's not difficult for > an ISP/provider to block outgoing spam. Many ISPs manage to run clean > operations and stay off blacklists. Do you think that's just luck? No, I think they block port 25. Of course you can stop spam if you stop all email. That doesn't really solve the problem for someone who wants to have their own domain. And regardless of whether there is any spam or not, anyone can claim there was to get someone they don't like on a blacklist. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com