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Re: SORBS on autopilot?
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:11:13 -0800
On 01/12/2010 10:48 AM, Dave Martin wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:51:47AM -0500, Jed Smith wrote:On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: The vibe I got from a number of administrators I talked to about it was "why would a standards document assume an IPv4/IPv6 unicast address is a residential customer with a modem, forcing those with allocations to prove that they are not residentially allocated rather than the other way around?"Because a default allow policy doesn't work in today's environment. Blocking generic and residential addresses is the single most effective thing we've ever done to reduce spam.
Really? You mean that if you stopped doing this you'd have trillions, or quadrillions of spams per day instead now? I'm skeptical. Mike
Current thread:
- Re: SORBS on autopilot?, (continued)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Steven Champeon (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Jed Smith (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Brian Keefer (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Rich Kulawiec (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Brian Keefer (Jan 13)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? JC Dill (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Ricky Beam (Jan 14)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Steven Champeon (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Dave Martin (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Jed Smith (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Michael Thomas (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Michael Thomas (Jan 12)
- Re: Identifying residential CPE IP addresses? (was: SORBS on autopilot?) Jed Smith (Jan 12)
- Re: Identifying residential CPE IP addresses? (was: SORBS on autopilot?) Steven Champeon (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Dave Martin (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Rich Kulawiec (Jan 13)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Brian Keefer (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 12)
- Re: SORBS on autopilot? Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 11)