Lazy network operators

Tue Apr 13 20:32:53 UTC 2004

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, John Curran wrote:
>    I'm very much suggesting blocking outward to the Internet port 25
>    traffic, except from configured mail relays for that end-user site.
>    Those hosts which have MSTP malware are stopped cold as a result.

NNTP is set up almost everywhere with configured server to server
connections, and essentially all "open" NNTP user access has been
closed down over the years.

How is the spam problem on USENET these days?