Collateral Damage in the Spam War

MarkedMan writes "The link points to a well researched article on Spam lists and those innocently appended to them. I have seen this myself with MailWasher. A posting will come through as potential spam, with the the bounce already red-flagged, but it is actually from a legitimate source. Only happens once or twice a month but still cause for worry. " I've found that Spam Assassin has made life easier, but I still have to ban domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, mail.com - and *.ru and *.cn. I sort through the spam periodically, but the collateral damage is still there.

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Banning .cn

[JoeBuck]

Q. How can the Chinese authorities get around the fact that the Great Firewall of China is doomed to be imperfect?

A. Get all westerners to ban .cn as spam. Then Chinese dissidents will be unable to communicate with the outside world.