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In theory the network should respect each IP address as if it is held by a separate entity, who should be judged as an individual and not as part of a group. I
by TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
In theory the network should respect each IP address as if it is held by a separate entity, who should be judged as an individual and not as part of a group.
In practice, due to bad actors, almost all internet services will in fact discriminate against you if your neighbors are (or have been) assholes. Sometimes they even discriminate against your IP address because they have PTSD about a different address that looks like your address.
What can we do? Not a lot. If the customers of MSFT don't care enough to complain that email is not being delivered to them, MSFT doesn't care either.
- rlpb 3y agoThe bad services sell use of their address space for next to nothing and turnover of their addresses is high. When they don't address abuse reports, or even if they do yet their addresses continue to act like whack-a-mole, there's good reason to tar them with the same brush.