[Gllug] New EU data retention rules approved

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Wed Dec 14 17:41:17 UTC 2005


On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:51:29PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On 14/12/2005, "t.clarke" <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:
> >SMTP traffic cannot, surely be 'proxied' ?
> 
> Sure it can, just like any other protocol.  Won't be easy or cheap,
> though.  The easier approach would just be to block outbound port 25 to
> all except the ISP's own SMTP servers.  This would have some nice
> anti-spam side-effects, but would leave users reliant on flaky ISP SMTP
> servers.
> 
> But then, mine is in the US so I couldn't give a rat's.

Exactly.  What about ssh to a server abroad running mutt?  I'd like to
see them "proxying" that one.

Rich.

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