Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <twe-suse.e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mon, 02 Jan 2006, by gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> On Monday, January 02, 2006 @ 3:53 PM, George wrote:
> 
> >On 1/2/06 7:35 PM, "Ken Schneider" <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> Highly unlikely that comcast.com is blacklisted. They one of the biggest
> >> ISP's in the USA. It would be equivalent to blacklisting earthlink.net
> >> or in your case Carlos, tiscali.es.
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Ken Schneider
> 
> >I agree - unlikely they are being blocked, but they have admitted they are
> >the US's largest source of spam. (this was about 6 months ago)
> 
> Well, if they're "one of the biggest ISP's in the USA", then being "the US's
> largest source of spam" wouldn't necessarily be any reason to single them
> out, would it (unless the latter is on a percentage, not volume, basis)?  I
> mean, certainly you could cut down spam if you blacklisted all of the
> largest ISP's, but that would be sort of counter productive, wouldn't it?

No it wouldn't, not if it would bring these spammer harbourers to their
knees and stop the flood of garbage.

Theo
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