[Gllug] Firewall Setup Script

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On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, David Pashley said:
>                                  You only want SMTP traffic to go to one
> host(your ISP's server) or come from one host (your local smarthost).
> Allowing every machine to send SMTP will result in viruses eating your
> bandwidth. ( all recent emai lviruses have their own SMTP engine)

You are making the erroneous assumption that this is necessarily a
danger. If anyone attaches a Windows box anywhere on my local network,
I'll be heading towards it with an axe and towards its owner with a
garrotte ;)

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`If you want a vision of the future, it is a wireless broadband network
 feeding requests for foreign money-laundering assistance into a human
 temporal lobe, forever. With banner ads.' --- John M. Ford

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