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. After all, wishes for a lot of tags for other applications might possibly appear, blowing up the IP-Database... So it was decided to do it (if at all) as a separate database, that could server for any number of different needs. Therefore, the issue was handed over to the database-working-group.
All I wanted was to enable ISP's to cooperate on this tactic against "hit and run" spammers.
That raises the questions 'who will/should maintain the data and the database' and 'who will tell the ISPs to use + how to use it'
Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member
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