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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Mike N.
date: 2006-01-28 16:23:26
subject: Re: firewalls

From: Mike N. 

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:53:49 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>But who cares, if the address you have for your home DSL account is on the
>bogon list that just means you'll need to use a mail server that's not on
>that block, nobody is blocking browsing from unused IP addresses (well
>nobody who hosts websites anyway).

  Quite to the contrary, a very standard setup is to drop anything in bogon
space.  And if you're coming from an unused IP address, how will the web
sites reply to you?   There is no way to route the reply packet.

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