On 24 Aug 2006 at 8:58, Gary VanderMolen wrote: > The IP that gets on the list is the IP of the mail server used to > send the spam. That's not a dynamic IP.
No, actually, that's not _quite_ accurate If the mail was sent through a mail server, then yes, but considering the amount of malware and spambots out there, a LOT of spam originates from compromised desktop machines running a malware based smtp server. Being that many are on dynamic ip's, it's quite likely that the next person to get that ip is going to have a problem. As to spamcop, they are evil ;-) They waaaay too often take a single or few reports as license to mark an ip, server, what have you as blocked. Not cool IMO as I've seen servers sending out legitimate email blocked because of a few reports to spamcop. As below, that's both a Spamcop problem and a problem with the admins that rely exclusively or heavily on the Spamcop BL. As was pointed out earlier, using them as part of a decision tree is appropriate, using them as your only BlackList is just stupid, and if someone who worked for me did that, they'd be fired on the spot for gross neglience. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
