On Fri, March 22, 2024 4:40 am, Gary Bowling wrote:
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> In the spamdyke config, the default is to use spamcop for
> blacklisting. I've had a lot of trouble recently with spamcop. They
> keep adding the outlook.com servers to their database. Which means
> every company that uses Microsoft office 365 for mail gets blocked.
> This has caused me a lot of problems as there are a lot of companies
> in the US that use office365 for mail hosting.
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> I am wondering if in these days we should be blacklisting server ip
> addresses. So many users are on shared services that blocking entire
> servers by ip seems like a bad idea. They also block entire ip
> ranges from hosting providers.
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Shared hosting has been around since the 1990s.
That was part of the idea behind blacklisting. That by blocking IP ranges,
it would encourage providers to stop spam because it would cause harm to
more than just the spamming customer.
--
William G. Silverstein, Esq.
Litigation Counsel
Licensed in California.
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