> Please reread my message, this time noting the examples I gave. This goes well
> past happenstance spam sewer adjacency and into legit senders not following
> rules somebody just made up or changed.
Could you be clearer about "a single noisy neighbor sending a bit too
much mail without jumping through the necessary hoops."
Since this is a neighbor of a friend (I'm relying on what was said when the
block was removed) I don't know for sure the specific hoop that wasn't jumped
through, but given the players involved I'd venture to guess that it had to do
with exceeding a rate limit.
In contrast, the problem I was dealing with on my own mail system was resolved
by a combination of limiting the number of open connections and the number of
transactions attempted on those connections, along with setting up an MX rollup
so all the domains this particular MSP serves come under the same restriction.
I've seen individual senders blocked for being new (it was pretty comical
what MS did when I set up a 30 day test account at O365 last month) but I
haven't seen that block an entire IP range. Bot spam will do that.
I don't think I've seen a block or rate limit for being new propogate to other,
established IPs in the range. But I have seen the time it takes for a source to
be considered "OK" increase.
Our commercial delivery service has dozens - hundreds - of rules implementing a
myraid of restrictions in order to be able to send commercial opt-in mail
successfully. And that's fine, I guess, but when an elaborate setup is needed
just to be a small sender, and even that can be blown away on a whim, I think
things have gone too far.
> Is "filter responsibly" also off the table?
Depends how much you want to pay people to accept your mail. I don't
think we want to go there.
My problem here is that that you seem content with coming up with an excuse
for any blocking people do, no matter how capricious, no matter how arbitrary.
Left unchecked, the outcome will be that email becomes the sole province of a
handful of large MSP/ISPs. And while I'm sure these providers think they are
smart enough to keep the current email service running in such a world,
experience with other sorts of social media indicates they aren't nearly as
smart as they need to be, or for that matter as think they are.
Ned
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