On 04/25/02 at 12:12, Dan MacDonald wrote:
> This points up an issue mentioned a couple months back. I don't
> remember now if it was Bill Cole or Steve Linford, I dont' remember
> if it was here or on NANAE. But it concerned the likelyhood of local
> lists ever releasing reformed IPs, closed relays/proxys, etc. It's
> not gonna happen. The chance that I'll ever go thru that list of
> 800+lines and retire qualified candidates is zilch. The argument that
> a well run, publicly available blacklist(s) is preferable to this
> system is compelling.
I agree with all of the above, and knowing that I'm not likely to go back
and remove no longer valid entries is a large reason why my local list is
(I think) relatively small. I generally only add IPs that meet the criteria
that:
1. My users are not likely to ever get legitimate mail from them, and
2. I don't believe that the admins of the hosts at the addresses in
question are very likely to secure their relays, or otherwise clean up
their acts.
In short, an address or IP block is much more likely to make it into my
local blacklist if it's located in Asia or Eastern Europe than if it's in
North America. For addresses that don't meet the above criteria, I either
nominate them to the public blacklists that I use, report the abuse to
their admins and/or upstream providers, or both, depending on the exact
circumstances of the abuse.
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