Gmail was Re: [ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Michael Armbrecht]

2008/8/1 Kae Verens <kae at verens.com>:
> Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote:
>>
>> If you revealed the user's source IP in the headers we could block THEM
>> not Google
>>
> if you did that, then soon enough, it would be impossible for anyone with a
> DHCP'd IP address (everyone in Eircom, Digiweb, Perlico, etc) to send email,
> as it's virtually certain that someone in each DHCP pool has a compromised
> computer, and sooner or later, that IP will shift off to some other innocent
> person who will then be unable to send email because they will be branded a
> spammer.

Which is pretty much already the case. I can't send emails from
neither eircom nor
IOL/EsatBT to some companies because they're rejected or deleted -- because some
infected zombies in these networks send spam and therefore these IP ranges are
blacklisted.

-- 
Michael

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