Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?

["N. Yaakov Ziskind" <awacs () ziskind us>]

Rich Kulawiec wrote (on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:25:20AM -0400):
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:38:17AM -0300, jim deleskie wrote:
>
> As to his decision to block Gmail (or any other freemail provider),
> everyone with sufficient knowledge in the field knows that these
> operations are prolific and habitual sources of spam (via multiple
> vectors, not just SMTP; Google accounts for more Usenet spam hitting
> my filters than all other sources combined).  It's thus not at all
> unreasonable for some operations to revoke (some oor all of) their
> privileges by way of self-defense.  

And, even if it *is* unreasonable, well, his network, his rules, right?

"I block all SMTP traffic from IPV4 servers (clients?) which have odd 
numbers in the third octet." might not be a good idea for a high volume 
mail server with clients, but if it's your network, go for it.

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