Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

Wed Sep 14 11:28:13 UTC 2005

On 9/14/05, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> >Port 587?
> Not everyone implements that. You would make a large part of the 
> internet unreachable via email
> vinyl# telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 587
> Trying 67.28.114.36...
> telnet: connect to address 67.28.114.36: Connection refused
> Trying 4.79.181.13...

Wrong host.  587 / msa is for outbound email

suresh at frodo 16:57:22 [~]$ telnet smtp.mail.yahoo.com 587
Trying 216.136.173.18...
Connected to smtp.mail.yahoo.com (216.136.173.18).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 smtp017.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP
quit
221 smtp017.mail.yahoo.com
Connection closed by foreign host.

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)