A tad off-topic, but John, why don't you setup a mailing list and have the PTA members join?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Jolet</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:john@jolet.net">
john@jolet.net</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:<br>
<br>&gt; On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; That's it.&nbsp;&nbsp;I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25.<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame
<br>&gt; &quot;solution&quot;<br>&gt; to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to<br>&gt; their own<br>&gt; SMTP server, so your mail may not be delivered directly, but it is<br>&gt; delivered.<br>&gt;<br>
&gt; Even if port 25 isn't blocked or redirected, it is often worth<br>&gt; using your<br>&gt; ISP's relay even if you have a broadband connection. Some ISP's block<br>&gt; incoming mail from IP ranges allocated to broadband users as an
<br>&gt; anti-spam<br>&gt; measure.<br>&gt;<br>one unfortunately corollary to this is my isp doesn't block outgoing<br>port 25, but DOES limit the number of emails you send via their<br>relay.&nbsp;&nbsp;I send a newsletter for my kids' school's pta and I could not
<br>do that if I couldn't send at least a chunk of them directly.<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Mark Shields