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Old July 14th, 2005
Sputnik
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Default Re: Re: Re: Split the hosts filter to a separate file…

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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?

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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.
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