* Bill Baka wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

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>>
> You may send me back to the books on that one. I was under the
> impression that SMTP wanted port 25, just as news wants 119, etc.
> Bill Baka
>

News wants to CONNECT to SERVER with 119 open just as SMTP wants to connect
to a server with 25 open. You can close every port on the client box and
still get mail and read news. Those ports are SERVER ports.

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David