a business opportunity?
John Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Sat Jul 5 22:38:30 UTC 2008
>The real solution to the scorched earth problem is for aging from
>blacklists to be dynamic.
Um, this isn't exactly a revolutionary idea. Almost without
exception* the blacklists that are widely used have some sort of
age-out so that the remove addresses that don't continue to show bad
behavior.
The problem is that there's a zillion little networks with their own
private blacklists, where the policy tends to be to add a block when
someone complains, and then forget about it, removing blocks only when
there are counter-complaints. Talk about not scaling.
R's,
John
* - some of the for-pay MAPS lists don't seem to have an aging policy
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