On 01/12/2010 10:48 AM, Dave Martin wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:51:47AM -0500, Jed Smith wrote:
On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: The vibe I got from a number of administrators I talked to about it was "why would a standards document assume an IPv4/IPv6 unicast address is a residential customer with a modem, forcing those with allocations to prove that they are not residentially allocated rather than the other way around?"
Because a default allow policy doesn't work in today's environment.
Blocking generic and residential addresses is the single most effective thing we've ever done to reduce spam.
Really? You mean that if you stopped doing this you'd have trillions, or quadrillions of spams per day instead now? I'm skeptical. Mike