For myself, I would not block any country just because there are some
notorious spammers there. It would be acting like the stupid verizon
admins. Evenmore, if I blacklist every country that has got spammers, I
would just end up blacklisting 0.0.0.0/0 but my servers IPs.
Jeremy Harris wrote:
> Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>> >From wash@??? Tue Jul 04 19:57:06 2006
>> Return-path: wash@???
>> Envelope-to: wash@???
>> Delivery-date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:57:06 +0300
>> Received: from acaen-251-1-97-4.w86-205.abo.wanadoo.fr ([86.205.243.4])
>> by ns2.wananchi.com with esmtp (Exim 4.62 #0 (FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE))
>> id 1FxoCv-0003Gc-1j
>> for <wash@???>; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:57:06 +0300
>
> Hmm. On wanna-doo-doo, in France. Notorious.
>
> Only actually on spamcop, among the major dnsbl's - but do
> you have enough business with France to not block .fr wholesale, and
> whitelist as needed?
>
> Once you get annoyed enough, many ISPs and several whole
> countries can be usefully dealt with that way.
>
> - Jeremy
>