IPv6 mail server whitelist declaring war on botnets

2011-08-01

Dreas van Donselaar

SpamExperts, The Netherlands
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Thanks to the introduction of IPv6, spammers will have access to a much larger pool of unique IP addresses, making it almost impossible for anti-spam companies to maintain useful blacklists. The ‘IPv6whitelist.eu’ was founded to try to solve this problem. The project assumes that all computers send out spam, unless they have been registered on the whitelist. One of the project's co founders, Dreas van Donselaar, explains more.


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