that is BAD advice :
first, the story you link to is kinda old.
the internal kindergarden-affairs of blocklist.org and/or methlabs (what a name ! )
have no bearing whatsoever on the blocklists themselves ,
ALL the lists generally available are made and maintained by BISS (bluetack)
everybody else are just leaching them .
second, it sounds like you are suggesting that people should make their own lists from scratch ?.
WHY ? somebody has already done the research and blacklisted DoD, Halliburton, MAFIAA, M$
and all the other corporate crooks. Do you realise how many IP's there are that have NOTHING
to do trying to connect to your machine ? good luck researching them on your own ...
With regard to the blocklists, the "bearing whatsoever" is this:
Nowadays, most links to download copies of the project-maintained lists are broken
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The principal owner, or one of the principlal owners, of "methlabs" is steering people to blocklist.org with the intent of SELLING subscription access to the updated blocklists.
Someone else brought up PeerGuardian, so I felt compelled to post a caveat regarding the "pre-built" blocklists in circulation
Although I recommend PeerGuardian as a solid/stable app, I recommend against using someone else's pre-defined blocklist ~~ esp the list(s) distributed via blocklist.org
I advised *against* using a pre-defined blocklist.
Yes, I'm ABSOLUTELY recommending building your own list *from scratch* one IP at a time, rather than pursuing the alternative of cluttering the Comodo firewall ruleset.
Yes, I'm ABSOLUTELY recommending against use of the pre-built lists -- they are just plain silly (to the point of being unusable). Most websites reside on shared servers, and in that hosting environment, most domains share IPs. You need to be EXTREMELY selective when choosing which IPs to block, else you wind up cutting off yer nose to spite yer face.
I don't use P2P filesharing apps, and have no opinion as to which IPs reflect those of "corporate crooks", but I sure as hell would disagree that the blocklists are "well-researched". The list designers are truly misguided / paranoid / overzealous; here's a single f'rinstance (among many):
Apparently due to the author(s) zeal toward blocking "Time Warner Communications", one of the blocklist entries -- a single line -- has the effect of blocking 13,000+ websites hosted by (largely colo boxes racked in) the Portland, Oregon TWC datacenter.
"well-researched"
More like "ill-conceived" IMO
