On Tuesday 11 April 2006 19:47, Richard Morgan wrote:
> Quoting Logan Tygart <thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us>:
> > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:53 -0400, Richard Morgan wrote:
> >> Quoting steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org>:
> >> > The outbound IP of the ISP's SMTP server is sometimes blacklisted ...
> >>
> >> Which I totally think is a lazy way of dealing with the problem, but I
> >> digress...
> >
> > RBL's wouldn't exist if the sys admins of the blocked IP's were not
> > lazy.
>
> The sysadmin doesn't have to be lazy - they could be corrupt and/or
> engaging in the spamming themselves. They could also be duped by
> "legitimate" customers.
Yeah, I've run into spammer owned ISP's more than once.
> Blocking IP's doesn't solve the spam problem. It's a dumb, brute force
> attempt to keep spam out of your network which just causes the spammer to
> use another IP. Would you block every IP on the internet if spam was coming
> from it? Because I promise at one point, all ISP's and hosting companies
> get some stupid customers who do bad things with their account.
It is a brute force solution alright. But it's also easy to see why people do
it. I would love to educate people into not paying attention to that crap,
but it ain't going to happen.
It's hard to knock people trying their best to solve a problem not solved so
far. It's also too easy to get on these blacklists and not easy enough to get
off. Not easy to balance...
--Steve Szmidt
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