[brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[-ray]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, willhill wrote:

> Cox will be blocking those work arounds soon enough because the spam 
> problem is not the real target, a monitored and censored network is.

Nonsense.  Now who's promoting hysteria.  The real target is making money. 
Monitoring and censoring you costs money, and doesn't exactly generate 
revenue.

> The real solution to the spam problem is to disconnect
> compromised machines and make their owners fix things.

We all know that.  But it doesn't make business sense.  Why disconnect a 
paying customer when you can mitigate the damage they could cause by 
filtering their connection?

ray
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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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