[95884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas Otis)
Sun Apr 8 23:11:48 2007
From: Douglas Otis <dotis@mail-abuse.org>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070408032707.16218.qmail@simone.iecc.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:10:53 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 03:27 +0000, John Levine wrote:
>
> But on today's Internet, if you want to get your mail delivered, it
> would be a good idea not to live in a bad neighborhood, and if your
> ISP puts you in one, you need a better ISP.
> That's life.
Good advise. For various reasons, a majority of IP addresses within a
CIDR of any size being abusive is likely to cause the CIDR to be
blocked. While a majority could be considered as being half right, the
existence of the "bad neighborhood" demonstrates a lack of oversight for
the entire CIDR, which is also fairly predictive of future abuse.
-Doug
