Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

Mon Apr 9 03:10:53 UTC 2007

On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 03:27 +0000, John Levine wrote:
>
> But on today's Internet, if you want to get your mail delivered, it
> would be a good idea not to live in a bad neighborhood, and if your
> ISP puts you in one, you need a better ISP.
> That's life.

Good advise.  For various reasons, a majority of IP addresses within a
CIDR of any size being abusive is likely to cause the CIDR to be
blocked.  While a majority could be considered as being half right, the
existence of the "bad neighborhood" demonstrates a lack of oversight for
the entire CIDR, which is also fairly predictive of future abuse.      

-Doug