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The Spamhaus approach (and one that is increasingly popular in telecom) is to say "f*** it, kill the provider." A lot of people disagree with this obviously.
by costco 3y ago
The Spamhaus approach (and one that is increasingly popular in telecom) is to say "f*** it, kill the provider." A lot of people disagree with this obviously.
- dredmorbius 3y agoSpamhaus doesn't block anything. Spamhaus publishes information on network space which originates large volumes of spam. Mail system operators use that information as they see fit. <https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/ https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/>
- costco 3y agoThis is technically true but practically irrelevant. A Spamhaus listing is the Internet equivalent of a sanctions designation and the process to get removed is equally as Kafkaesque as OFAC's. Not to mention the fact that addresses in the [DROP list](https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt https://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txt) effectively can't even connect to the broader Internet because every important tier1/tier2 uses these lists and drops all their packets.