article on blocking by subnets

[Barry Gould]

At 04:19 PM 12/2/2002, you wrote:
>Isn't it much better to leave the handling of IP-adresses to those specialized
>in handling IP-addresses ? Eg. www.ordb.org. Don't make bogofilter a universal
>do everything tool. Let it do what it is good at, no more.
>
>How would an innocent IP-address get out of bogofilter, once the open relay
>had been closed? It would sit in the spam-list forever unless the spam using
>it is weeded out of the training set and retraining is done. Not very likely
>to happen.

It would be just like any other token.

Bogofilter is ALREADY storing IP addresses... I was just putting out the 
idea of using the subnet too.

Barry