Re: Commecial vs fairness (was: spam support)

[Mally Mclane <]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, furio ercolessi wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:18:41PM +0100, Anne Marcel Roorda wrote:
> > 
> >   Educating admins on how to maintain a blacklist if they so choose
> > would be a better sollution. Getting them to drop the local blacklist
> > and move to one of the several publicly available blacklists would be
> > even better.
> 
> We are an ISP using publicly available blacklists (a bunch of them)
> and subscription-based ones; but we also have our own, at present
> containing about 4000 IP numbers or blocks (and also 6000 domains and 
> 4000 single email addresses; but we are discussing IPs now).
> 
> The local blacklist is extremely important to us, because it gives
> us an easy and fast way to block established spam sources without
> going through the effort of submitting nominations to public
> blacklists and wait for them to be accepted.  We often do that 
> (Steve knows..), but there are just too many spammers and too
> few people reporting, and a day is only 24h.


you block quickly...

how often do you check/recheck/unblock an ip?

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