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Maybe the big webmail providers are relying more on machine learning for filtering spam instead of blocking IP ranges these days.


That would be horribly unreliable. I hope they dont rely on machine learning for such critical infrastructure.


Blocking IP ranges is also horribly unreliable. There is no good way to fight spam in a system like e-mail, just varying levels of terrible ways.




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