Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

[Peter Beckman <beckman () angryox com>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Benjamin Billon wrote:

> >  Why don't we just blacklist everything and only whitelist those we know
> >  are good?
> > <snip>
> > > Note we all could start using IPv6 and avoid this problem altogether.
> > <snip>
> Yeah. When ISP will start receiving SMTP traffic in IPv6, they could start to 
> accept whitelisted senders only.
>
> "IPv6 emails == clean"
>
> Utopian thought?

 My statement about blacklisting everything was sarcastic.  Clearly
 blacklisting everything and whitelisting individual blocks is not a
 viable, reasonable nor cost-effective option.

 Clearly I also suck at conveying sarcasm via email. :-)

Beckman
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