On Mon, 2014-09-29 at 14:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > You said you were blocking IPs. Yes my systems block IPs on the basis:- Emails ------ Block if IP allocated to a data centre or to a commercial email sending organisation. Web --- Hacking attempts - individual IP if a 'home-type' Internet connection. Block if IP allocated to a data centre. Hosts (email) ------------ Persistent pests using 'home-type' Internet connections are added to the spammers list. Example *airtelbroadband.in *adsl.alicedsl.de *dynamic.se.alltele.net *alshamil.net.ae *adsl.anteldata.net.uy *aphie.info *pools.arcor-ip.net *static.arcor-ip.net *as9105.com *as13285.net *as43234.net Thus no actual IPs are banned in this instance. Duration -------- Individual IPs about 4 weeks. Blocks indefinite. Hosts lists indefinite. > The IPs you see don't represent > people or even specific devices and you have no way of knowing the > correspondence. I think genuine email senders will use a real MTA rather than something, taken from today's list, like:- host-93-178-107-188.ttn.ru 249.119.233.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com dab-yat1-h-61-9.dab.02.net If the correspondence is genuinely important, then the sender will obviously know my details including phone number and/or postal address. > Why tolerate anyone? Because it is my systems, paid with my money, and therefore it is my choice to accept everyone - also my choice not to tolerate hacking attempts and junk mail. I previously stated I will not be a placid victim for hacking attacks or for spamming. Long gone are the gentlemen's days of the Internet when mail relaying via third parties was acceptable, normal and never ever abused. Unless one can successfully adapt to the inevitable changes throughout life, one's existence is doomed. I wish to stop this topic now and do other things. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU