Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation
Peter Beckman
beckman at angryox.com
Thu Sep 10 15:02:27 UTC 2009
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Benjamin Billon wrote:
>
>> Why don't we just blacklist everything and only whitelist those we know
>> are good?
>> <snip>
>>> Note we all could start using IPv6 and avoid this problem altogether.
>> <snip>
> Yeah. When ISP will start receiving SMTP traffic in IPv6, they could start to
> accept whitelisted senders only.
>
> "IPv6 emails == clean"
>
> Utopian thought?
My statement about blacklisting everything was sarcastic. Clearly
blacklisting everything and whitelisting individual blocks is not a
viable, reasonable nor cost-effective option.
Clearly I also suck at conveying sarcasm via email. :-)
Beckman
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