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So does this means if the car accident rate increases, we shud just reduce the highway speed limit to 50km/h?? Because the highway has many potholes, and the authority has no means to fixed the potholes, we conviniently introduce a speed limit reduction to everyone??
Of course. The most important thing about the roads is that they are safe.
It would be great to have safe, fast roads, but if they are unable to provide that, then safe slow roads are the next best thing.
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Eventhough spammers uses port25, but there are also alot of legitimate users out there that uses port 25 for real business purposes.
The spammers inconvenience millions of people every week and use a lot of resources.
I doubt there are more than 20 people in all of Malaysia who could make a good case that they "need" to use port 25. Their company mail servers should be accepting mail on port 587 which is the correct port for SMTP submission from end users. If the company mail servers are only accepting it on port 25 then they are misconfigured. The problem in this case is with the company running the mail server, not with TM.
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There are many methods to combat spam, but TM is taking the shortcut by just blocking port25.
I don't think you understand the reason for this block. It is to prevent compromised customer machines from sending spam elsewhere (99% of it goes to non-TMnet destinations). This is not about stopping spam
to Streamyx customers, it's about stopping spam
from them. There's not much else they can do along these lines, unless you want them to do as some other ISPs, and close your account down if they notice that your computer is infected.
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Ppl like me where my company email server is in the US, i rely on my email client to be able to send emails out via port 25.
My company email server is in the US too. I deliver send mail to it on port 587. I can send mail using TM's SMTP server. I can use a VPN to reach my company server on port 25. I can set up a redirector at the company to allow to use some other arbitrary port. There are many different solutions, most of them very easy.