In article <1369438008.34960.YahooMailNeo(a)web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>om>,
Al Johnson <alj62888(a)yahoo.com> writes:
In the very slim event that legit wiki editor would
also happen to have had
his IP previously used by a malicious botnet, wouldn't a "IP blocked"
message simply inform him that his computer has been compromised?
No, because they could be using a dialup account and get a dynamic IP
address that was used by someone else previously.
Everything that's being discussed has already been done to combat
email spam. It seems the appropriate thing to do is to leverage that
work instead of re-inventing it.
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