Simon Lockhart wrote:
It's wholy unfair to the innocent parties affected by the blacklisting.
i.e. the collateral damage.
YouŽll get burned anyway in a bad neighborhood because of the bandwidth
consumed by the crap.
Say a phising site is "hosted" by geocities. Should geocities IP addresses
be added to the blacklist?
What if it made it onto an akamaized service? Should all of akamai be
blacklisted?
As with any list, whitelisting space that takes care of complaints is
always an option.
LINX produced a paper recently on why BGP poisoning is exactly the wrong
answer to removing access to undesirable web content (i.e. phising sites).
I've asked if it can be made public.
Looking forward to it.
Pete
