Tagging of IP adresses / Application-Database

In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.990604111501.29256J-100000 at gargoyle.nacamar.de>, Nacamar AS Guardian writes:
>On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry for my inactivity on this subject, but let me just try to
>> get this back to basics:  The only thing I wanted was an attribute
>> which said "SMTP connections from these IP numbers shouldn't happen"
>> 
>> As it is today, we pretty indiscriminantly reject email from the
>> dial-in ports of a large number of (mostly USAnian) ISPs to limit
>> the amount of SPAM.
>
>ok, this was discussed at the last RIPE-Meeting,
>and it was expressed that  such an 'overloading' 
>of the current IP-Database with additional, 
>basically unrelated informations was not wanted.

Rather than bloat the idea to that size, I thing I'd rather drop
the proposal then.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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