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RE: Question on Blocking an ISP.
From: "* KAPIL *" <kapil () kapilville com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:55:31 -0600
I highly doubt that 99% of email traffic you receive from aol.com is SPAM. Most likely, the email headers have been fudged to appear as if they originated from aol.com. ...and I don't think wholesale blocking of IPs is a prudent practice. First off, AOL, as I mentioned, is huge....why would you want to cut off your user base from communicating with the user base of the largest ISP in the world? Secondly, it is just against the spirit in which the internet was created. The idea, for better or for worse is to keep the networks connected together....if everyone started blocking everyone else...pretty soon we'd have islands of IP networks and the internet wouldn't be too internetworked. ------------------------- Stand Up For Free Speech http://www.eff.org -----Original Message----- From: Brian L. Johnson [mailto:blj8 () blj8 com] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:24 PM To: Chris Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. The Entity currently known as Chris emitted:
I'm blocking these ips though IPchains, but i really would like to know
how to get every class owned by aol so i can block them all. Receiving mail from aol is no big thing to me, considering 99.9% of the
time is junk or spam. Is there some way to whois arin on a nic handle to get all the classes?
# whois -h whois.arin.net aol -=Brian L. Johnson, www.blj8.com=- --------------------------------- For PGP key email to: pgpkey () blj8 com For Geekcode email to: geekcode () blj8 com
Current thread:
- Question on Blocking an ISP. Chris (Dec 02)
- RE: Question on Blocking an ISP. Rick Darsey (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Chris S (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Brian L. Johnson (Dec 03)
- RE: Question on Blocking an ISP. * KAPIL * (Dec 04)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Devdas Bhagat (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Neal K. Groothuis (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Byrne Ghavalas (Dec 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Question on Blocking an ISP. Robb, Bev (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Chris S (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Johannes Ullrich (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Chris S (Dec 03)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Steve Payne (Dec 04)
- RE: Question on Blocking an ISP. Allan Jensen (Dec 05)
- Re: Question on Blocking an ISP. Neal K. Groothuis (Dec 05)
- RE: Question on Blocking an ISP. Rick Darsey (Dec 03)