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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. Ban Asia??? by Markvs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, why not. Heck, I blocked France on principle!

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  2. Re:An interesting counter point... by CodeMonky · · Score: 5, Funny

    what you don't know is that the client was hunted down and shot.

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    --"Karma is justice without the satisfaction"
  3. Re:Setback for the net? by Skirwan · · Score: 5, Funny
    What about getting laws that say that unsolicitated mail is illegal?
    That's brilliant! Then, we can make a law that outlaws terrorism! And then fascism! And rudeness, and poor driving, and taking the last donut! Hell, we could just make a law that outlaws 'being mean' in general!

    And while we're at it, we should make it illegal to respond sarcastically to extremely simplistic solutions to complex problems! Yeah!

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  4. Dealing with Chinese spam ;-) by Ryu2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    As most /.ers should know by now, the Chinese government just ordered all ISPs in China to start monitoring
    email for subversive phrases and the like, so just reply to
    Chinese spam with little replies of the form at the end of this spam.
    Might be a useful tactic on companies who think that unsolicited
    email is "just regular advertising".

    Bill

    "Jack(export manager)" wrote:
    >
    > Dear Sir
    > How are you .
    >
    > We are a lighting factory in China ,It is glad
    > to introduce ourselves to you:
    >
    > I am XUBIN (Jack) , XUBIN is my chinese name , you can just
    > call me Jack !! , I am export manager of [deleted] ,
    > China, our group have four factory
    [snipped]
    >
    > Here is our company profile :
    >

    [Rest of sales talk snipped]

    (And now, the reply)

    Thank you for your coded order. The weapons and ammunition
    will ship by way of the usual route in ten days, and you
    already know our secret Swiss bank account number to
    wire the payment to.

    It is a pleasure doing business with you for so long,
    and I hope your cause will prevail. I am new to this
    particular computer, so I hope the encryption is
    working and the monitoring authorities cannot read
    what I am sending you.

    Long live the Falun Gong! Free Tibet!

    Best regards,
    Your arms supplier

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    There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
  5. When I contact a French ISP... by lww · · Score: 5, Funny

    they usually surrender right away ;)