Reindl Harald put forth on 2/4/2011 4:35 AM: > > > Am 04.02.2011 11:20, schrieb J4K: >> I agree. I have plenty of colleagues who run their own mail servers from >> residential connections and they know how to set-up their machines. > > Maybe, but if they are running a mailserver form dial-up ranges > mail seems not to be important for them because since many years > such ranges are blocked on many servers and spamfilter-services > > We got a new iprange on a business line which was faulty marked as > dial-up and there was a lot of troubles until fixed from ISP > >> Understandably, they are miffed by having to pay for a business line, or >> rack space in a >> data centre, when they are perfectly capable for doing this with a spare box >> at home > > sorry, but this does not interest anybody > a v-server is cheaper than the energy for the box
Sure, and tons of VPS/cloud/etc IP space is summarily blocked by many smtp receivers as well due to snowshoe spammer infestation, with Amazon being the most well known, Slicehost, Rackspace, etc, etc. VPS at many receivers is just as persona non grata as residential dynamic. So the solution is the same as with SOHO and residential hobby servers: block all, whitelist a few as needed. This class warfare of who can direct send legit mail from where does more to damage the net that spammers ever could. Keep focused on the target: spammers. This fight isn't about whose server sits in a gold plated data center on an OC192 vs whose sits in Mom's basement on aDSL. Anyone concentrated on the latter has already lost the fight. -- Stan
