[130161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (N. Yaakov Ziskind)
Wed Sep 29 12:27:24 2010
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:26:48 -0400
From: "N. Yaakov Ziskind" <awacs@ziskind.us>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100929122520.GA12933@gsp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: awacs@ziskind.us
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Rich Kulawiec wrote (on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:25:20AM -0400):
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:38:17AM -0300, jim deleskie wrote:
>
> As to his decision to block Gmail (or any other freemail provider),
> everyone with sufficient knowledge in the field knows that these
> operations are prolific and habitual sources of spam (via multiple
> vectors, not just SMTP; Google accounts for more Usenet spam hitting
> my filters than all other sources combined). It's thus not at all
> unreasonable for some operations to revoke (some oor all of) their
> privileges by way of self-defense.
And, even if it *is* unreasonable, well, his network, his rules, right?
"I block all SMTP traffic from IPV4 servers (clients?) which have odd
numbers in the third octet." might not be a good idea for a high volume
mail server with clients, but if it's your network, go for it.
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