On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Seth Goodman wrote:
It's bad enough that spammers can circumvent SPF by using disposable
domains. The combination of disposable domains and dynamic IP's gives them
an edge that will be hard to beat. Dynamic DNS service is cheap enough that
it is in the disposable category.
Furthermore, we have constructed a policy engine that allows spammers to
circumvent the netblock owners' wishes. All this for the sake of vanity
domain hobbyists who are unwilling to pay for the services they wish to use.
We don't have to bend over backwards to support this group, which
incidentally includes lots of script kiddies.
I would like to jump in and point out that a static IP is not all that
expensive. I am on Cox cable. I pay $55/mo for dynamic IP, and use my
work MTA to receive mail and cox.net relays to send mail. If I did not
have access to a static IP at work, I could pay $80/mo, and get a static
IP from cox - and relaxed a AUP from Cox that lets me run web and other
servers (subject to instantaneous bandwidth limits) and removes
total monthly transfer limits.
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