On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jared Mauch wrote:
Are there still spammers that don't use "innocent" relays to spread their junk? As long as there are reachable relaying servers somewhere on the net, the spammers have nothing to worry about.
freerelay.cyberpromo.com
Cyberpromo must work both ways then. I've gotten spams recently that originated at cyberpromo but were relayed through any number of unrelated sites across the world.
How many spam houses have their own CIDR blocks? Not having looked, I'd guess few if any.
Not many.. only the big ones. If you're going to get into denying
Do any really? I'd be amazed if cyberpromo could justify enough IP's to get a globally routable CIDR block. As was already mentioned, having large blocks of IP's that are nearly unusable because they are in so many blacklists should obviously not be a valid "use" of IP space, and should not be justification for getting more space.
The problem is that any sort of blacklist maintained by more than one person in their spare time gets into very sticky legal issues, and should
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