What about corporate responsibility (Score 2, Insightful)

In this day and age, with most busy mailservers fending off about 60% of their load as Mass Spam storms, it is almost negligent to allow all of your customers unlimited access to smtp to any destination. Yes, there will always be outcry about 'censorship' and 'big brother'. It's a shame it's not the same crowd that shouts about the torrent of Spam and viruses that comes from high bandwidth, unaware mom & dad users (and us techies too - I can't remember the last Open Relay I saw configured by a mom & dad!) incidentally, scanning for and removing http://ip.ip.ip.ip/ links from Email is a pretty good way of detecting and blocking the outbound phishing attempts that each year result in millions of dollars being drained from the bank accounts of the uninitiated. Censorship is designed to prevent a particular content, subject or message from being propgated. I'm pretty sure you can re-write an Email in such a way as it does not get blocked. I'm pretty sure that if you want to run an SMTP server, you can get permission. if however, you happen to be a virus, you're hopefully s**t out of luck.