On 11/1/2023 5:55 PM, Jack wrote:
> On 01/11/2023 21:31, Stephen Fuld wrote:
>>
>> There has been some confusion in this thread recently.  Anyone with an
>> account can read and post messages using Eternal September.  The "read
>> only" is apparently just Google Groups. That is, anyone can read any
>> article through Google Groups, but no one can post new articles nor
>> replies to the group using Google Groups.
>>
>>
>>
>
> There is another server called "paganini.bofh.team". You don't need an
> account but spam is not allowed. People abusing the server will have
> their IP address blocked.
>

IP blocking is a bit questionable though in this era of ISP grade NAT
and similar (say, the IP address they see on their cable modem is
10.x.x.x; with some other IP address visible to the outside world), and
with a dynamic external IP address.

So, if one person is posting spam with a given ISP, then blocking fails
to block the spammer (as their external IP keeps changing), but will
ultimately end up blocking random other people who happen to have their
traffic routed through an IP address which was previously used for
spamming (well, at least until their ISP causes their connections to
jump over to some other IP address that hasn't been blocked yet).

....

It seems like a strategy that mostly (only) really makes sense in a
context where one assumes that each node has a statically-assigned
global IP address.