On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Steve Linford wrote:
were previously used by a Cyberpromo and are consequently completely
blocked by every DNSBL and local MTA blacklist on the net. If they
did, and you gave those IPs out to customers there'd be a mess as
your customers would want to burn an effigy of you ;) So it may make
sense for RIPE to guard themselves against a future Cyberpromo
destroying the usability and hence value of those IPs, by stipulating
something in the TOS that forbids the use of the IPs for spam service
purposes.
so you advocate RIPE not reallocatiing IPs that have been used by a
spammer?
That's a difficult one, I would say 'yes' but then RIPE would need a
process to know that a particular IP range is effectively destroyed
for re-allocation for a period of time. With major US-based spam
gangs we use the term 'radioactive half-life', here in Europe we
haven't seen any major spam gangs yet so this issue hasn't yet
arrived on RIPE's doorstep.