[thelist] Spambots IP restriction

David U. davidu at everydns.net
Wed Oct 23 15:45:00 CDT 2002


Andrew Maynes wrote:
> I have just read the excellent article by Daniel Cody (djc) and
> realised that banning one IP that belongs to a server such as aol
> freeserve etc etc is a major flaw was there anything that went
> furthewr after these end comments?

There is no flaw in my view...

When you block access you are taking the false positives along with the
negatives.

It's a choice you have to make, personally my comfort level is pretty high
with regard to blocking others to improve my inbox.  Others are not.

-davidu





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