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by MichaelApproved 83 days ago
This sounds like bad advice and would result in blocking google and other major ESPs.

I occasionally get spam from people who took the time to create gmail accounts. Based on this advice, the honey pot email address would get spam from a Gmail account and your script would block Gmail servers.

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There exist lists of email providers. Those you can whitelist, ie. they can't get on the blacklist. Even then they would only be blocked temporarily. There also exists postmaster@domain.com which should not filter at all. I am aware that you are able to abuse said system but if you monitor logs those issues would only be temporary.
Yeah, I mean, you can personally vet those domains/IPs?