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Bob Noel wrote:
In article , Dylan Smith
wrote:

because I'm a geek.

That's legit.

It's also legit for private networks to not accept mail from dynamic IP
ranges.

nope. That approach is just "shoot em all, sort em later." The
"effectiveness" of it doesn't make it legit.

iow - since so much email is spam/uce, just delete them all.

That's disingenious and you know it. My spam filter can be thought as
the INS of my computer: just like people from countries where the most
illegal immigration come from don't get to be in the visa waiver
program, email from where most the spam comes from has to go through the
proper channels. The vast majority of the spam comes from dynamic IP
address ranges that are listed in the SBL's Exploit Blacklist. If you
happen to live in those places, and you want your email to be accepted
by my private network, you must go through the proper channels - your
ISP's smart host. Or stop being a skinflint and get a proper business
DSL connection that supports servers (or host your mailserver elsewhere,
a suitable VPS starts at a very good price).

Or are you suggesting it's feasable and worthwhile for 12 users to sort
through over 2500 pieces of spam to find on average 10 legitimate emails
a day each? Why should we spend hours filter by hand just to allow a
handful of geeks to run servers on a consumer dialup connection?

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