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I do that on several of my hobby nodes. I block entire ASN's for all the major platforms. Real people can still reach them just fine. To your point I do less of that on my self hosted mail servers and instead use a regex methodology called S25R created by a mail admin in Japan a long time ago and it works great.


Tricky thing about Google is quite a lot of my contacts are on Gmail or some domain hosted by Gmail so blocking Google's ASN is a no go for me. I'm now with Fastmail -- they use Spamassassin (plus I suspect their own custom rules) which uses a range of different metrics to determine whether an email is spam. That is is far more effective than straight up blocking ASNs and the like.


Yup that's why on my mail nodes I use the S25R regular expression methodology. Google passes the regex checks.




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