On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Greg Allen wrote: > There are a lot of small businesses on these legitimate business > class DSL lines with fixed IP addresses (which they pay extra for) > who are very frequently incorrectly listed as "dynamic" IP > addresses. The vast majority of these small companies are NOT > spammers.
Amusingly enough, I am dealing with that exact situation right now. GoDaddy has my hosting provider's netblock listed as dynamic space. > To expect every small start-up to be on a major Internet carrier > with a T1 is simply not reality these days. To block on dynamic is > asking for a lot of trouble. It also is a pay-to-play mentality. > If a start-up business can't afford a T1 then they can't send > email? I never said that or meant to imply that. Perhaps I was placing too much trust in the accuracy of the public DULs. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Look at the people at the top of both efforts. Linus Torvalds is a university graduate with a CS degree. Bill Gates is a university dropout who bragged about dumpster-diving and using other peoples' garbage code as the basis for his code. Maybe that has something to do with the difference in quality/security between Linux and Windows. -- anytwofiveelevenis on Y! SCOX ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 days until SWMBO's Birthday
