| Spamhaus is a nuke in a conventional war The problem here is that Spamhaus has a nasty reputation for blocking whole ranges of addresses instead of just the sources of SPAM. It will surely cut down on SPAM. But it will also block legitimate emails at a higher rate than other SPAM filtering solutions. I fear that Comcast users, and that includes me, will start missing some emails that they really want.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:The problem here is that Spamhaus has a nasty reputation for blocking whole ranges of addresses instead of just the sources of SPAM. It will surely cut down on SPAM. But it will also block legitimate emails at a higher rate than other SPAM filtering solutions. I fear that Comcast users, and that includes me, will start missing some emails that they really want. Maybe it will force Comcast to deal with their users who are either spamming or infected with bots. |
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 Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
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Erie, PA | how is an inbound mail filter going to cause comcast to deal with infected boxes? |
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| said by Combat Chuck:how is an inbound mail filter going to cause comcast to deal with infected boxes? If Comcast is blocked from other ISPs by the same service they signed up for, then they will have issues. Imagine having your domain on a block list administered by the same service you get that block list from. How do you block yourself? 
Now, if internal Comcast member to member mail is also screened, that could be interesting too. |
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1 edit | said by moonpuppy:said by Combat Chuck:how is an inbound mail filter going to cause comcast to deal with infected boxes? If Comcast is blocked from other ISPs by the same service they signed up for, then they will have issues. Imagine having your domain on a block list administered by the same service you get that block list from. How do you block yourself? Now, if internal Comcast member to member mail is also screened, that could be interesting too. Your reasoning is not correct.
Spamhaus will be used to check/block email coming INTO Comcast's servers, not going out.
Other ISPs that currently use Spamhaus filtering will already be blocking Comcast's emails if they were blacklisted by SH
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Combat ChuckToo Many CannibalsPremium
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Erie, PA | reply to moonpuppy
said by moonpuppy:If Comcast is blocked from other ISPs by the same service they signed up for, then they will have issues. That may be ironic, but it's not going to cause any more issues than there currently are. |
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Chester, CT | reply to fAcEtIOUs
said by fAcEtIOUs:The problem here is that Spamhaus has a nasty reputation for blocking whole ranges of addresses instead of just the sources of SPAM. It will surely cut down on SPAM. But it will also block legitimate emails at a higher rate than other SPAM filtering solutions. I fear that Comcast users, and that includes me, will start missing some emails that they really want. Um, no. Spamhaus does not do that. It sounds as if you are confusing spamhaus with SPEWS. (www.spews.org) which DOES do that. |
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