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

[Justin Mason]

Kae Verens writes:
> 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.

You're jumping to conclusions about how such a thing works.   It's
entirely possible to institute blocks that auto-expire in hours, and
iirc that's how the Spamhaus XBL, for example, operates.

--j.