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Re: How to wish you hadn't forced ipv6 adoption (was "How to force rapid ipv6 adoption")


From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 7 Oct 2015 18:59:10 -0000

Using the link-level address to distinguish between good and bad email
content was always daunting at best. Thanks for pointing out that this
flawed behaviour must cease.

I don't know anyone who does that.  But I know a lot of people who use
both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to distinguish among "has sent legit
mail", "is a spambot", and "no history".  Those are handy when mixed
into the usual multi-factor spam filtering.  Outright blocking on
conservative lists of spambots like the CBL (now XBL) works well, too.

R's,
John


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