On Mon 07/Oct/2019 23:38:23 +0200 Brandon Long via mailop wrote:
> Also, it's hard to optimize for the servers that send us one message a day.


If it sends a message a day, it cannot be spam (by the B in UBE).

 
> I've argued before that we should have better handling for the smallest
> servers (whitelist the first 5 messages/day for low volume IPs, for
> example),


Yes, please :-)

There don't seem to be big advantages for Google in killing small servers.  It
might more convenient to support them, for the sake of the mail ecosystem.


> but the total volume compared to the effort against the major spam
> campaigns, it's hard to get that high enough on the priority list.  We did
> make some changes for that for smtp time blocking, but it doesn't move any
> of our numbers because the number of messages affected is tiny... and when
> you're talking about IPv6, even small numbers like that can result in large
> enough holes for spam campaigns.


IPv4 allows to store a single DB record per IP address, even on a PC disk.

And then, blocks like OVH's, formally assigned to different hosts, are not
uniformly available to the same 0wner.


Best
Ale
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