This one time, at band camp, Giacomo A. Catenazzi said: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >Blocking people because of their ISP is silly. > > > > But if the benefice/cost is big I find really no problems. > If there is a loooooots of spam from one ISP and > no or few potential users, I don't see problems. > If they need to email us, they can still use gmx, yahoo, gmail,... > and then in a secundary moment we remove the block The problem is the false positive. There are many ISP's that are both on RBL's and don't take bounces. This means that a user who sends us an email about a problem gets blocked by our RBL, and never knows they got blocked - they just think they never got an answer. I think the cost is too high, myself. I agree that the spam situation (everywhere, not just here) is ridiculous, but there are other ways to get it down. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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