[nylug-talk] Mail servers on dynamic IP addresses soon to be shunned nearly everywhere.

[Ron Guerin]

Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Ron Guerin wrote:
> 
>> Ah Pook wrote:
>>> On Saturday 03 February 2007 3:09 pm, Ron Guerin wrote:
>>>> The ISPs and mail providers there included AOL, Bell Sympatico,
>>>> Bellsouth, Charter, Earthlink, TW/Roadrunner, Verizon, AT&T, Cox,
>>>> Comcast, Cablevision, France Telecom, Rogers, Telus, MSN/Hotmail,
>>>> Cingular, Sprint, Outblaze, Yahoo, and a bunch more I don't remember
>>>> off hand.
>>>>
>>>> If I were you, I would be sure not to do business with any of them,
>>> Looking at that list (and having had "service" from at least 14 of
>>> those), it sounds like a pretty good idea actually...  :-)
>> Unfortunately, I have to agree.  While I obviously understand where John
>> Levine (the abuse.net postmaster, among many other distinctions) is
>> coming from with that statement, I find that some on that list are in
>> fact the primary sources of the spam they're trying to stop.  I also see
>> the company known as "the worst-run network on the Internet" on that list.
>>
>> Nevertheless, whether MAAWG is a synonym for a bunch of companies that
>> need to go out of business or not, if they follow through, the end of
>> the "residential class service" mail server is at hand.
>>
>> - Ron
> 
> This issue is near to what newspapers call "Network Neutrality".

It can be, but in this particular case, the story plays like this...
ISPs has lots of customers with infested home PCs.  ISP has no stomach
for disconnecting these machines until they're cleaned up.  ISP skirts
problem by publishing his customer's IP addresses and tells all other
ISPs not to accept mail from those IP addresses.  When it's framed like
that, it's unlikely to see intervention, and it affects too few
customers to cause any pain in the ISPs wallet.

- Ron