[129439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP port blocking practice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Sep 6 21:37:05 2010
In-Reply-To: <m2k4mygx2b.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 07:06:53 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
No. It'd just increase a LOT, astronomically.
Something on the lines of turning a firehose of petrol on a wildfire
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> i suspect that, if we opened smtp relays again, unblocked 25 for
> consumer chokeband, etc., total spam received would likely increase a
> bit. =C2=A0but my guess, and i mean guess, is that the limiting parameter
> could well be how many bots the perps can get, not how well those bots
> are blocked.
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
