On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:36 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
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> We have different definitions of "reasonable", then.
>
> Facts that are not in dispute:
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> -not all dynamically-addressed hosts are sources of spam
>
> -blocking mail based on the client being dynamically addressed blocks
> legitimate mail
>
Not only is there disagreement of what is reasonable but I think there
is disagreement on what is legitimate. A commercial entity with a need
to email from a dynamic IP range may consider its' needs legitimate. A
person receiving spam email from that same range may well judge the need
as illegitimate.
Your previous post described a situation where you couldn't get good
mail service. The average home or casual business user might overcome
that with a gmail, yahoo, hotmail, or other account and proceed with
their email. A person who needs to run a list or who has a need to have
a domain and host it himself must either have a static IP or resort to
dyndns or another agent for a pseudo static.
That does not automatically make that entity a legitimate sender of
email. Static IP addresses are sources of spam, but dynamic zombies are
also, and are as well sources of viruses.
Larry
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