On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:
two things, though: (1) you'll never get those things fixed and (we both know it), (2) so you'd better prepare for the inevitability of widespread filtering against your DSL/Cable blocks (whether you talk to me or not.)
Paul, where have you been? There is already widespread filtering of DSL/Cable/Dialup blocks. Some DSL/Cable/Dialup providers even provide daily/weekly feeds to various third-party list operators and other service providers so they can more accurately mantain lists of dynamic addresses. Accurate lists of dynamic addresses are encouraged. Or are you suggesting the SPEWS approach of blacklisting everything. DSL/Cable/Dialup users won't be able to send e-mail directly from those addresses, and in addition, do you intend to go further and also black list all the provider's e-mail servers and static addresses and dedicated addresses so any provider which has DSL/Cable/Dialup pools can't have any e-mail servers on any address block registered to the same provider.