J.D. Falk wrote:
Aaron Wolfe wrote:
Not true. There are servers that say send out bank statements and
100% of
what it sends is bank statements.
Until the day those servers get hacked, or they take on a new client
who sends a different type of mail, etc.
That's why any serious 3rd party whitelist service will constantly
monitor to make sure that any IP that's listed still deserves to be there.
The same issues apply equally to both kinds of services.
One of the big concerns today is we are running out of IP addresses
and most networks are not ready to switch to IP version 6 yet. Runout
of "virgin" never-assigned IPv4 addresses will occur within 2 years
and for a number of years following there will be a large effort
made to recover abandoned IPv4 addresses. Many of those addresses
are occupied today by squatters who have gotten disreputable ISP's
to announce them, and are using them to spam. Within 2-3 years those
addresses will be reassigned to ISPs who will be cleaning them up,
and will be wanting to use them legitimately.
Thus, any reputable blacklist service will ALSO need to constantly
monitor to make sure that any IP that's listed still deserves to be
there.
Ted
