Mike Holling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 1 February 1999 at 19:28:07 -0800
> > > It may come to that. If DSL IP banks become a significant, easily
> > > blockable source of mostly spam, then of course they will be blocked.
> > > So? Why is this supposed to be a problem for me if I block them?
> >
> > Because it's possible there will reach a point where the number of hoops
> > the person using DSL would have to jump through to successfully get mail
> > to you will exceed their patience, at which point they'll just say "screw
> > it" and stop communicating with you.
> >
> > I'll point out that this mailing list is being run off what is arguably an
> > IP address provided to an end-user by an ISP. (At least possibly; I'm not
> > aware of whatever arrangements Dan has with his university. But here at
> > Stanford, I'd put faculty machines into that category.)
>
> Exactly. The implicit assumption being promoted here is that an ISP's
> mail server is somehow more "legitimate" than an arbitrary mailserver on
> the Internet. As Russ has just demonstrated, there is quite a bit of
> legitimate mail transacted on non-ISP servers.
That's not what I hear. I hear some people arguing that mailservers
on dynamically assigned (i.e. anonymous) IP addresses are suspect. I
hear them give statistics explaining *why* they consider them
suspect. This is not nearly so strong a claim as the one you say is
being promoted.
I absolutely agree that lots of legit mail gets transacted on non-ISP
mailservers. Nobody, in my memory of this conversation, has disagreed
with this.
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