> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mike Lima wrote:
>
> | I give you an example. Lists like Sorbs.net, block IPs of dial up
> | accounts, dynamic IPs and entire blocks of IPs, the first time a spam
> | comes from one IP within the block. Imagine blocking from ip 1.1.1.1 to
> | 1.1.1.255, just because 112 sent spam. Doing that you are causing damage
> | to people that have nothing to do with the matter. They are blocking
> | nameservers, as you know, machines controlling hundreds, thousands of
> | domains. My server is now on a nameserver that is blocked. They are
> | blocking large free email accounts, as Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. They feel
> | like prepotent and arrogant gods with final decision to block countries,
> | continents, etc, at the first spam they receive from those places.
> |
> | I agree that you can create a block list, but not by IP. As you know,
> | spammers use dynamic IPs or invade systems and use their resources. So,
> | a list by IP is a picture of a moment in the past.
>
> Yup - you hit the nail on the head - much spam comes from dynamic IPs -
> that's *exactly* why many sites block entire dynamic pools
>
> ( like "1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255" in your example )
just to add on , wat this does is it forces the ISP to deal with offenders
provided enuf infor is supplied ,it sorts of like brings sanity into the
whole picture ,the more crying u do the more your ISP has to do to avoid
such a standoff , but some blacklists just block for say a week or 2 to give
u time to realise the mess u are in and sort it out.Believe me this works.
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