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Re: dynamic ip: cold hard facts

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Subject: Re: dynamic ip: cold hard facts
From: Charles Cazabon <qmail@discworld.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:48:53 -0600
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Sami Farin <safari-qmail@safari.iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:36:59 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> ...
> >   -blocking mail based on the client being dynamically addressed blocks
> >   legitimate mail
> 
> Sure... What's the ratio?  1:100000 (ham:spam)?

I don't know, because I don't have statistics on how much of my mail comes
from dynamically-addressed hosts.  And if you block mail from
dynamically-addressed hosts, *you don't know either*.

The people who seem most sure that this doesn't block "much" legitimate mail
appear to be exactly those people who can't know it, because they *are*
blocking mail with this technique.

Charles
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