[Mimedefang] FTC asks ISPs to crack down on zombie PCs

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:37 PM -0400 James Ebright 
<jebright at esisnet.com> wrote:

> Yes, but in that scenario the "client" is relaying ALL of the mail
> through the ISPs mail server and not doing any direct-to-mta deliveries,
> which is what I suggested he do in my first response. ;-)

The client *can* do that (just as it can relay all web traffic through an 
ISP proxy), but it can also do direct to MX.

We could probably block some phishing if we forced all clients to go 
through an ISP's web proxy and blocked access to "bad" sites there.