[anti-abuse-wg] Re: update on netsecdb project

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15.10, Dr. Alexander K. Seewald wrote:
> IMHO just having blacklists based on IP addresses is not enough:
> * rapidly increasing mobile internet (which has dynamic IPs unless
>   one keeps a connection open indefinitely - hardly ever the case)
> * tendency to reuse one bot for an ever decreasing number of spam messages
> - so blacklist are and always getting to be less helpful.
spamblocklists works often on whole ranges. MIne does 
( i block the whole range assigned by ripe/apnic/arin for ISP's that allow
spam to flow out of their nets) 

But i agree; blocking single ip's does not help.

> 
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> So here's to hoping the spammers die out from the current crisis and
> we can switch off all our spamfilters...
I wouldn't bet on this. As long as law-enforcement does not hunt spammers we
will continue to have the spamproblem.

What if spam would be characterized as terrorism, then maybe ISP had to act ...

> 
> Best,
>   Alex

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