On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Benjamin Billon wrote:
Why don't we just blacklist everything and only whitelist those we know are good? <snip>
Note we all could start using IPv6 and avoid this problem altogether. <snip> Yeah. When ISP will start receiving SMTP traffic in IPv6, they could start to accept whitelisted senders only.
"IPv6 emails == clean"
Utopian thought?
My statement about blacklisting everything was sarcastic. Clearly blacklisting everything and whitelisting individual blocks is not a viable, reasonable nor cost-effective option. Clearly I also suck at conveying sarcasm via email. :-) Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------