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Walling off Asian E-mail to Prevent Spam

Posted by timothy on from the one-of-the-trends-in-my-filter-list dept.

SomeoneYouDontKnow writes: "Seems there's been lots of spam news lately. This piece from Wired describes how frustrated sysadmins in the West are responding to a torrent of Asian spam by simply refusing all e-mail from that part of the world. As anyone who's ever reported spam to Asian ISPs can attest, getting a response of any kind is almost impossible, so some ISPs are simply giving up on receiving any mail from them. Setting up barriers like this is regrettable, but when the originating ISPs refuse to take responsibility for the actions of their users or close their open mail servers, there would seem to be no other choice. Has anyone ever had any kind of constructive conversation with one of these ISPs to see why they are unable or unwilling to do anything?"

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  1. day old article from wired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it is nice how people keep submitting and slashdot keeps posting day old articles from wired.com

  2. Another way to approach this one.... by MikeP42 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As I understand it, the Chinese are just victims of the rampant capitalism of everyone's favourite superpower. US spammers take advantage of lax system management in foreign countries to promote their products and services using spam. Thus, surely a more effective way to elimiate spam would be to cut the US off from the Internet. Fight the problem at it's source! This would have a number of other side benefits for the rest of the Global Internet as well.

  3. Re:The only way to go... by Roblimo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    > Granted its some of the SPAM is
    > from "white folk" that are using
    > these open relays to SPAM Americans.

    I know a Baltimore guy who was a prosperous, successful spammer for *years* before he got a degree and moved into a more legitimate job.

    But he's still black, and AFAIK has no intention of changing his skin color anytime soon.

    - Robin

  4. Re:Sadly, this is the only way to go by fmaxwell · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    **Like actually bothering to translate your contact messages into various non-English languages. After all, when was the last time You, as a sysadmin, responded to an informative message to postmaster@your.org that was written in an Asian language?? I didn't think so..

    The development of the Internet (yes, the Internet is more than the HTTP protocol) was funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars. Non U.S. users can damned well speak English when addressing us. When in Rome...