oldjack Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 Most of the spam that slips through to me is coming from a couple of countries that do not have DNS blacklists available on the Blacklists page. I think I once read in the forum that more country blacklist options were not offered because they wanted a set of blacklist options that could be generally recommended to be turned on. If that's the case, how about a link on the Blacklists page to a separate "advanced" page, and make other country blacklists available on that separate page? I'm not suggesting that a blacklist for every country be added--just a few additional countries that are the source of a lot of spam but are not currently available on the Blacklists page. People who didn't want to use the lists (and people who oppose country blacklists on a philosophical or political basis) wouldn't have to use them, but they would help some people. I could say goodbye to Glut H. Aquifer and Hellenization S. Suarez and their webmail friends forever.
jefft Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 What countries do you think should be added? JT
Merlyn Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Thiland, India, Wanadoo (fr) for starters
Jeff G. Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 I'd also like to see comcast on the list. While not a country, it has a larger userbase than some countries. Thanks!
jefft Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Thiland, India, Wanadoo (fr) for starters We already have some of those. JT
Merlyn Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Thiland, India, Wanadoo (fr) for starters We already have some of those. JT I know, I was just grabbibg where the most spam comes from on out servers. There are more Do you think you will add some more?
oldjack Posted January 30, 2004 Author Posted January 30, 2004 The ones I would really like to see, with the most annoying on top, are: Hong Kong Russia Mexico France Germany Maybe someone's done a study of which countries are the biggest sources. Countries probably go on & off the top 10, but I think there are a few whose inclusion would probably be welcomed by consensus.
Jeff G. Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 IIRC, some folks in Europe wanted to be able to select USA, as well. With lots of whitelisting.
Chris Parker Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 I'd also like to see comcast on the list. While not a country, it has a larger userbase than some countries. Thanks! If I'm not mistaken a good portion of their network was just added to SPEWS. (residential blocks, not their mail servers)
Jeff G. Posted January 30, 2004 Posted January 30, 2004 I'd also like to see comcast on the list. While not a country, it has a larger userbase than some countries. Thanks! If I'm not mistaken a good portion of their network was just added to SPEWS. (residential blocks, not their mail servers) That's great news! Thanks!
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