Dnia  9.10.2019 o godz. 16:49:46 John R Levine via mailop pisze:
> 
> Right.  I didn't get the message you were responding to, so I looked
> in the logs and see the IP is in the middle of a block at OVH that
> gushes spam so it went straight to the spam trap.  The logs say that
> it's the only message of the last several hundred from that block
> that arguably wasn't spam, so that's a pretty low error rate.

It's a basic mistake to operate on whole netblocks and not individual
senders. It's like you would ban all citizens of a particular country X from
coming to another country Y, because a lot of people from country X are
terrorists. Well, that doesn't mean *everybody* from country X is a
terrorist and that doesn't mean you shouldn't let that person in just
because he *may* be a terrorist.

> >>Well, Gmail is basically "free stuff" as well. Yahoo is "free
> >>stuff". In my country, Onet, WP and Interia are big free e-mail
> >>providers as well. Should nobody accept mail from them just because
> >>they are free?
> 
> They manage to keep the ratio of good mail to junk acceptable.

If you looked at my particluar server, and not at a whole netblock, you
would see that the ratio is more than just "acceptable" in my case. The
whole mistake you are all making is looking at whole netblocks instead of
individual IPs. It is so called "collective responsibility", where you hold
one member of a group (btw. a group *artificially created* by you, as I
have nothing common with other OVH customers and I'm in no way connected
with them, similarly as probable most other their customers) responsible for
what other members of the group do. Almost everyone, in other areas than
Internet, agrees that collective responsibility is a bad idea. It's a bad
idea here too.
-- 
Regards,
   Jaroslaw Rafa
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"In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there
was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."

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