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China Wants Out of Spam Blocks

SomeoneYouDontKnow writes: "Apparently, China is feeling the effects of the e-mail blocks Western ISPs are placing on Asian mail to prevent spam, as previously reported here. A group of Chinese legislators is calling for the blocks to be lifted because they're making it difficult for them to communicate via e-mail, and a signed article in The People's Daily is calling on China to ban spam. Maybe now some of the lazy admins of these spam-spewing mail servers will clean up their acts."

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  1. Common sense! NO open relay = no block by Romancer · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you have a problem you fix the problem.
    We fixed a problem of recieving spam from their open relays by blocking them from sending to us.
    We asked them to close their relays and they said no or didn't respond, so we blocked them.

    Now they want us to unblock them and the answer seems fairly obvious to me. NOT until you close your relays which is why you are blocked!

    Quote: "Peter Lovelock, director of Beijing-based consultancy MFC Insight, said the National People's Congress might be swayed to pass laws calling for more rigorous management of Internet-linked servers in China in order to avoid international embarrassment."

    If it's such a problem that your "Chinese legislators" are getting involved they should stop complaining that they're bring punished and fix the problem.

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  2. Actual URL by wenzi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the actual article ( if you can read chinese, sorry ) http://www.southcn.com/it/ittout/200203050573.htm

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