alex wrote: >I don't know if this is offtopic, in that case: i'm sorry :) > >bit.nl (a dutch provider) started to put ip-addresses from emailing >virusinfected computers in a database. I thought this might be useful for >people fighting spam :) > >more info: http://virbl.bit.nl/ > > > I think this is useless at best and harmful at worst. These are not spammers or spammers' ISPs.. These are innocent users. What would you get by blocking them? Nothing, there would be a zillion other infected ones. Plus, get an AV filter for your server instead, you'd need it anyway as there's no way you'd catch all virus-sending IPs. And when they clean their system, what then? Who would unlist them?
I'm using XAV with F-Prot on my server and the only thing about viruses that bothers me is getting all the delivery errors. And there's nothing that IP database can do about that... Maybe I misunderstood the idea but what you describe here isn't really an answer... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
