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Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: <snip> White listing is NOT what was being discussed . Tho is can be adventagous in the right circumstances . <snip> White listing comes with any blacklist. The blacklists in particular being discussed were the @dynamics, like the PDL and dynablock at easynet. Both lists quite clearly state how they build their lists and what they are designed to block (dynablock only takes out dialup, and PDL takes out all dynamic addressing).And neither was Static addressing . Filtering was being discussed based on some unknown (to me probably others as well) methodology . Twyl , JimL Given the number of insecure client systems on dynamic addressing (proxy servers, trojans, etc), accepting email from dynamic addresses is becoming inherently more dangerous. If smarthosts can't be used from those addresses, then special whitelisting can be done. Of course, the person implementing email blocks of any type, especially public blacklists, must take some ammount of responsibility in maintaining legitimate email communications as dictated by users. -Jack
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