[SpamCop-List] Re: Can I block this IP?

[Steven Maesslein]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:04:40 -0700, N Miller coughed into spamcop and
left this in <MPG.1b5a6a3e98c2ccf8989726 at news.spamcop.net>:

> SPEWS works, for the people who run it, and who use it. It does not seem to 
> be that difficult to work with them, from watching how they work. But they 
> are not geared to "surgical precision". They seem to be predicated on 
> preemptive blocking; taking out whole ranges of IP addresses to deny the 
> spam supporting ISP from gains by moving their pet spammers around.

Precisely. SPEWS is the Spam *Prevention* and *Early Warning* System 
after all. If that doesn't look preemptive then I don't know what does.

> This makes them less useful for larger organizations; but their
> aggressiveness may actually be suitable for smaller, like-minded
> groups.

Works fine for me, even though it doesn't have much to catch once the 
SCBL, sbl-xbl.spamhaus.net and dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net have filtered out 
most of the crap.

> I, also, am a "mental midget"; I dump all email from 200.0.0.0/7. What are 
> you going to do about it?

aol

Add 38.0.0.0/8, 4.0.0.0/8, 12.0.0.0/8 to that. Plus the rest of LACNIC 
space, China, Korea, Nigeria, Spain, Italy, Israel, all of Comcast, 
VSNL, Dishnet, Bharti... If it weren't for the fact that I run a LUG 
here in France I'd be blocking the whole of France too.

-- 
Steve