[121187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SORBS on autopilot?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Jan 12 15:39:45 2010
From: Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B4CDB4F.8080706@opus1.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:38:51 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Joel M Snyder wrote:
>> 2) Your reply to Dave's post is not useful. It's not even useful if
>> you consider it pure hyperbole for effect. There are many ways to
>> reduce spam, the "single most effective" does not stop even 50%.
>=20
> Actually, that's not true. I don't want to get into an argument about =
"single most effective," but I can guarantee that using a good =
reputation service will block more than 50% of the incoming spam to your =
network. The leading ones normally hit the 80% range.
A good reputation service is not using a single criteria. But you =
didn't want to get into an argument, and I agree it's not worth arguing =
over.
The point was, trying to imply that not using DUL would result in =
"quadrillions" more spam is not useful. And I stand behind that.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
