--On 4 July 2006 21:40:35 +0200 Renaud Allard <renaud@???> wrote:
> For myself, I would not block any country just because there are some
> notorious spammers there.
Yep, you'd have to start with the USA, but usually you can't rely on the
domain for that. You might be able to use IP ranges, though ;^)
> 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
>>
>
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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
