Re: Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

On 18/03/2013 10:13, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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>> Surely the answer is to whitelist good servers rather than blacklist 
>> bad servers
>
> How do I end up on the whitelist?

You ask to be on it.

The way I'd do it would be to charge people, say, $10 per year per MTA 
IP address to be on the whitelist (to fund the WL DNS servers)

This won't affect legitimate users much as it would only affect those 
with the "final" MTA, so mostly ISPs, and businesses with their own MTAs.

However, botnet owners are unlikely to pay $10 per bot IP address, and 
anyone using an entire /64 IPv6 range for spamming is going to have a 
big bill.

If an IP address spams a lot, then you remove it, and the owner has to 
reapply to be on the whitelist (possibly paying more if this happens 
frequently)




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