Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

> > How about the cost of legitimate emails that get filtered and never
> > read. Not everyone scans the list to check for false positives.
> In a major example of false positives, we already have examples of one
> real cost of spam. AOL (as one example of many) has declared ranges of
> IP addresses marked 'residential' as invalid for running a particular
> application. In this case SMTP, but which app is next? There is a 
> 'guilt
> by association' presumption here by the operations community, which 
> when
> carried into other applications results in substantially limited value
> in the core IP protocol.
I can see the operators POV. If you have no hammer, take bulldozer. 
Sort of works, doesn't look pretty but is fast. The cost of handling 
spam is huge and there isn't much else they can do.
OTOH, I do agree with you that this is a threat to IP. I know small 
ISPs in Sweden who filter out a number of applications such as Kazaa 
and certain on-line games "as they use way to much bandwidth". This is 
very dangerous.
- kurtis -

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