"DoN. Nichols" wrote:
According to Michael A. Terrell :
Mark Rand wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:38:57 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
Jon Danniken wrote:
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Hard to prosecute the ones from China, et al.
You don't have to. The US should block all IP addresses assigned to
China, till they clean up their mess.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
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You can't come up with an answer, so you post childish bull****.
I get at least as much spam from US IP address as from APNIC
ones -- and I'm doing very active blocking against many sites. (I don't
know what the ratio might be if I were not doing the blocking, however.)
Most of the spam that gets through comes from IP addresses assigned to
APNIC. By blocking them, it would all go away, till they cleaned up
their act. It wouldn't take very long. As soon as it started affecting
their exports they would start rounding up the worst offenders and
execute them.
Note that if you block *all* of APNIC, you will also lose a lot
of our contributors from Australia. While some spam comes from there as
well, I don't get enough to massively block it as I do with both China
and Korea.
http://www.apnic.net/
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
For that matter -- I get more spam from Florida here in the US
than from any other three states combined. (Though pre-Katrina, Slidel
LA was another major source.)
But most spam from *any* country comes from compromised Windows
machines being used to mail out the spam and to mail out virus code to
compromise yet more Windows machines.
If you look at the details of most spam source IPs from *any*
country, you will find that it is not from the ISP's servers, but from
cable or (A)DSL connected machines which are not *supposed* to be
sending out on port 25 (the SMTP port) anyway.
Appaerntly, Earthink is doing a good job trapping domestic spam. I
still see more foreign spam in languages that can't be displayed on my
computer, so all I see is random garbbage.
--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida