On 12/1/2010 12:55 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > I don't see any nightmare.
When DNSBL resources are order of magnitudes higher... when the largest data files for DNSBLs go from 100MB to probably Terabytes... and then trying to transfer that via rsync... and getting all the mirrors to handle loading that much data into rbldnsd... THAT will be a nightmare. (will Terabytes of RAM be affordable anytime soon?) > DNSBLs are a useful anti-spam tool that > will be made somewhat less effective with the advent of IPv6, but they're > by no means the only or most effective anti-spam tool we have. Not the only tool... but (particularly for IP DNSBLs worthy of blocking at the MTA...) they are the BEST tool from a price/performance perspective. In contrast, content scanning messages is comparatively resource expensive. I suppose a nation's military *could* fight a war without airplanes, without ships, and without missiles.. and just depend on the foot soldiers and tanks to do *all* the work. But is that wise? Does that happen without a steep price? We have a chance to impose some strict standards for mail sending on IPv6 that will lessen these problems. Why wait until its too late? -- Rob McEwen http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ r...@invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032
