[anti-abuse-wg] Abuse: dnsbl - trust and other factors

andre at ox.co.za you wrote:

>Society does not want to stop spam - if they did - there will be no
>spam in 2016. - comments?

The words "society" and "stop" as used in the above sentence are
both highly ambiguous.

99.9% of all end uers of the Internet *do* want spam stopped.

99.9% of all network operators *do* take steps to block spam from
entering their networks.

Almost nobody... including even Spamhaus and the other blacklists...
routinely take actions which might have some hope of effectively
stopping spam at its source.  And I don't blame them or anybody else
for that.  As I've learned, first-hand, over the past 20 years, it is
an extremely difficult task for a variety of reasons, almost all of
them political or religious rather than technical.


Regards,
rfg