Re: Client host rejected: 85/8 banned for abuse

At 12:16 PM 10/19/2006, Eugen Leitl wrote:

Are you sure? 85/8, that's a lot of unreal estate.

<measl@mfn.org>: host mx1.mfn.org[204.238.179.8] said: 554 <v64.ativel.com[85.10.225.64]>: Client host rejected: 85/8 banned for abuse (in reply to RCPT TO command)

The whole /8? I'd certainly say it's a lot - it's not even a single Class A owned by a carrier like AT&T or UUNet, but has a number of different ISPs in different countries owning chunks of it. leitl.org has a /24 that's part of an ISP /18 in Germany, and I saw some Swisstel in another /18 there. That's the kind of global overkill I'd expect from an irresponsible spam-blocker list like SPEWS, and even for them that would be pretty excessive.