[LUGSB] Re: introduction and question

[Erez Zadok]

In message <BAY103-F21CD9E0ABA4C0773F3DD5CD2E20 at phx.gbl>, "Aaron Pellman-Isaacs" writes:
> hmmm... never realized stony filtered 25 (havent used it on campus). Makes 
> sense I guess though. Do you know if that's a global policy or just 
> resnet/whatever?
> --Aaron

It's a globally applied policy which had been quietly decided and enacted by
DoIT w/o consultation with the Senate or the campus faculty/IT committee.

This policy make some sense, in that you want to prevent rogue mail servers
from being allowed to accept mail -- spammers haven.  But it prevents me
from delivering email from home directly to my very safe and secure mail
server at work.  I'm forced to go through optonline's mail server.  I prefer
to avoid sending sensitive emails as much as possible via unsecure
networks/servers (don't know what kind of logging/monitoring they might be
doing).  So until I can setup a secure SMTP server, I have to ssh to my
workstation and send my mail from there -- not as convenient as doing it
from a laptop at home.

Erez.