On 1/4/2011 1:57 AM, John Levine wrote: > I also don't think it's very realistic to expect that there will > be a master mail host file distributed periodically like HOSTS.TXT > was. There's a reason that the DNS was invented, and at the time it > was, there were a whole lot less hosts on the net than there are mail > hosts now.
Others will take this and publish it via DNS (even if just for their own customers), which is a good thing. Also, such a list could be a raw list of just the IPs, nothing else, fwiw. (Obviously, every single spam filter "instance" worldwide wouldn't try to download that entire list.) > Finally, I presume everyone is aware that there is no possibility > whatsoever that RIRs will get into the business of selling mail host > IPs, so this entire subthread is 100% hypothetical. If so, then a (less advantageous) private solution will hopefully develop. But talking about "realistic", the "status quo" is already not realistic, even with the good ideas that you proposed, which did improve on this problems in _some_ aspects. -- Rob McEwen http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ r...@invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032
