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Re: [Asrg] What are the IPs that sends mail for a domain?

2009-06-22 17:54:41
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:59:01PM +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
We use IP address reputation services because there's nothing else we can 
use, in the absence of some way to authenticate the sender address. Of  
course, those mechanisms exist and are widely deployed but not 
universally, or even by a majority of domains. When they become so, we'll 
no doubt see domain based reputation services, and even address based 
reputation services being used as much as IP address reputation services 
are.

I don't think so.  Domains and addresses are nearly-free and disposable,
so spammers could easily render both pointless exercises whenever it
suited them to do so.  Given that registrars are quite happy to continue
selling dirt-cheap domains by the thousands to even the worst spammers
(and registrars ARE spammers) it will always be possible for abusers to
come up with another domain and another email address -- or another ten
thousand of each -- whenever it suits them.   Network space is not quite
so easy to come by, so I think we stand a better chance keeping track of
allocations.

---Rsk
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