I have zero sympathy for your correspondence with a neighbour who is a perpetual spammer unless this block is crossing ISP boundaries (which I doubt) he is financing an ISP who lives off hosting spammers and he should vote with his feet.

It is like renting a flat from a brothel keeper, and then complaining about the noise.

I agree those who blacklist whole ISPs too aggressively are fairly clueless, and note this includes the mail admins at AOL. Perhaps if you feel so strongly on this topic you should switch to another ISP as well.

Your tolerance maybe high, but you probably already benefit from the practice you deride as clueless.

What sort of spam load are you seeing? I'm averaging over 120 unsolicited e-mail a day caught by my spam filters ignoring the huge number that get bit bucketed straight away (probably as many again if not more).

Even with aggressive antispam filters the small percentage that do get through still account for a substantial proportion of my email, and probably the bulk by volume if viruses are included.

Indeed because I am involved in the admin of several lists the bulk of my personal email remains spam and spam related despite very effective filters in place.

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