Are Country blacklists working?

[StevenUnderwood]

So it is listed on the DNS list, which I personally use to filter mail.  Aside from that, I wasn't aware China had a BL.  To be honest, I'd love nothing more than to block all Chinese and Korean IPs.. but that will likely never happen.

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Brandon, Do you use spamcop webmail??? Do you have all the DNSBL's selected?

Here is the list spamcop allows us to choose from.

DNS Blacklist DNS Zone Website

SpamCop Blacklist bl.spamcop.net www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml

SPEWS level 1 l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net www.spews.org

DSBL open relays list.dsbl.org dsbl.org

Spamhaus Blacklist sbl.spamhaus.org www.spamhaus.org/sbl/

South Korea (the country) korea.services.net korea.services.net

China (the country) cn.rbl.cluecentral.net www.cluecentral.net/rbl/

Nigeria nigeria.blackholes.us www.blackholes.us

Argentina argentina.blackholes.us www.blackholes.us

Brazil brazil.blackholes.us www.blackholes.us

Composite Blocking List cbl.abuseat.org cbl.abuseat.org

Spamhaus XBL xbl.spamhaus.org www.spamhaus.org/xbl/

SORBS DNSbl dnsbl.sorbs.net www.dnsbl.sorbs.net

[btech]

LOL now I feel stupid. I have SCMail and have all the lists selected, but I forgot Cluecentral was for China. I should probably take another look [at] the BLs and make sure I have them all selected.

I do have to say though that it confuses ME, then, how so much spam can come from Chinese IPs, yet not hit those lists. I also find that the thousand or port scans I get a night are from Chinese IPs.

[btech]

Has anyone seen this?

http://www.cluecentral.net/rbl/index.php?item=main

THIS RBL WILL STOP ON NOVEMBER THE 1ST, 2005

Does that mean the list is no longer updated and useful?