[anti-abuse-wg] Re: Additional Layers for Economic Incentives to improve Internet Security

In message <10122710090862_81BC at oregon.uoregon.edu>, 
"Joe St Sauver" <joe at oregon.uoregon.edu> wrote:

>#But we already have blocklists aggressively doing that with netblocks 
>#(uceprotect, spamhaus etc). No serious mailprovider in my neighbourhood 
>#use those blocklists 
>
>You must be in an unusual neighborhood since Spamhaus is generally
>considered to protect about 1.4 billion mailboxes worldwide according
>to http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/index.lasso


Well, that's what the marketing department @ Spamhaus tells everybody
anyway.

I for one have never seen a single shread of proof to back up their
rather exhorbitant claims in this regard however.

But to return to the point at hand, no, generally Spamhaus _doesn't_
block big swaths of IP space...  a fact for which I, at least, have
criticised them repeatedly.  They bend over backwards to be far far
too lenient, in my opinion.


Regards,
rfg