
July 14th, 2005
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Re: Re: Re: Split the hosts filter to a separate file… Quote: Originally posted by AaronWalkhouse Apparently you haven't looked at it very closely. | There's no way to "look at it" at all, apparently, save downloading a rather large zip file. Is the content even human-readable? Quote: There are almost 175,000 IP addresses and ranges in there, and the many lists I use are updated very frequently. You may get one or two of the most sophisticated spammers sneaking through but the vast majority of spammers and hostiles are stopped cold. | And the vast majority of legitimate sharers, no doubt. Most of those address ranges have probably got 1 spammer and 255 legitimate users sharing a dynamically-allocated pool of addresses. The spammers are unfortunately too clever to use static IPs on normal commercial accounts -- too easy to filter them there. |