On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15.10, Dr. Alexander K. Seewald wrote:
IMHO just having blacklists based on IP addresses is not enough: * rapidly increasing mobile internet (which has dynamic IPs unless one keeps a connection open indefinitely - hardly ever the case) * tendency to reuse one bot for an ever decreasing number of spam messages - so blacklist are and always getting to be less helpful. spamblocklists works often on whole ranges. MIne does ( i block the whole range assigned by ripe/apnic/arin for ISP's that allow spam to flow out of their nets)
But i agree; blocking single ip's does not help.
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So here's to hoping the spammers die out from the current crisis and we can switch off all our spamfilters... I wouldn't bet on this. As long as law-enforcement does not hunt spammers we will continue to have the spamproblem.
What if spam would be characterized as terrorism, then maybe ISP had to act ...
Best, Alex
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