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Re: Massive increase of spam on debian-*@l.d.o



Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> writes:

> On 2004-05-06 00:36:13 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> I agree.  Dialup/residential IP lists used for blocking purposes is
>> pretty retarded.  However, using something like bl.spamcop.net, which
>> only lists currently spamming IPs, is considerably more useful.
>
> unless for dynamic IP addresses (in this case, blocking them may be
> a good thing if there is spam coming from the pool).

No, wrong.  This is still broken, MAPS-esque behavior.  Automated
blackhole lists watching which hosts are currently spamming don't
suffer from mass collateral damage of small sites.

-- 
Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux.  You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.

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