In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.990604111501.29256J-100000@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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!