________________________________ From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Craig White Sent: Wed 3/9/2005 09:40 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Port 25 closing? On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 08:02 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 14:49 -0700, Robin Laing wrote: > > Mark Haney wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:11 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >> I think SP2 is the straw that will break the camel's back. I know > several of our clients are leaning toward using linux more and more. > The area I live in (Western NC) has been hit hard because of the economy > and I hear more and more of my customers complaining about the cost of > using Windows. The best part is I'm the only linux guy in my company. > Maybe I can 'preach the gospel' and convert a few people here. ---- SP2 firewall was kind of necessary addition - but of course there are lots of users that can't configure it. It's not very hard to configure at all. Craig I agree it's NOT hard to configure. However you get the issues noted in the original post quite often with SP2 firewall on. It likes to block _outgoing_ ports as well as incoming ports even when you tell it not to. I am all for saving the end user from themselves, but I think that's a bit much. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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