So is blocking 224.0.0.0/4. What's that got to do with blocking Alan's 61.0.0.0/4 netblock? By even *joking* about such a thing, you're putting yourself into the luser subcategory, tantamount to those advocating blocking all European domains because "they get so much spam from Europe." Purely an admission that they shouldn't be administering anything that has to do with the Internet.
Bah. Blocking all European domains because "they get nothing but spam from Europe" isn't unreasonable. Draconian? Not if what they say is true and their traffic patterns don't change.
Maybe I should be bouncing my mail off some http trojan in the US, then. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong.
If the vast majority of the traffic from a given network or geographical region is abusive (e.g. extremely small ham/spam ratio) and blocking great swaths of the internet doesn't upset local users or violate local policy, then the practice of blocking great swaths of network space seems pretty defensible to me. The trick is in the definitions of 'vast majority' and 'upset local users' and keeping blocklists up-to-date.
Actually, I use SpamAssassin (true, 2.60-CVS) for blocking content rather than wasting time finding IP ranges to block. SA as it is now, with a few additional content rules, blocks 99.9% of all spam anyway.
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> my network, my pager, my rules. :/
Can't argue with that. "He who pays the piper gets the pig."
Tony
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