ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

Thu Aug 10 18:31:09 UTC 2006

On 10 Aug 2006, at 19:12, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> I'll answer on-list since this answer can benefit others.  The  
> primary reason that the ISP wants to block outbound webmail spam is  
> because the 100s of BLs on the Internet end up blocking large  
> segments of the IP space due to spam reporting by end users.  The  
> spammer can end up "burning" quite a few IPs before the feedback  
> loop of user->spam report->BL->ISP->block is completed.  Therefore  
> the ISP wants to be proactive and shut off the spam before it even  
> starts.  Even if it means losing revenue.

This seems to imply that you're using dynamic addressing.

The rather obvious solution would seem to be that you provide static  
addressing. It also makes it rather easier to identify the spammer  
when the complaints come in since you won't need to grovel through  
your RADIUS logs.