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The Measured Effectiveness of Blocking Asian Spam

Posted by chrisd on from the spam-is-bad-mkay dept.

fadden writes: "I recently started blocking IP addresses in China and Korea that were sending me spam. Instead of a blanket ban, I only blocked the subnets from which spam was being sent. After my first week of scanning and banning, I wrote up a report on the effectiveness of the blocks." In related news, SSKennel adds that: "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has discovered (prepare to be amazed!) that revealing your email address in chat rooms can get you spammed. It claims to have taken action against spammers who harvest email addresses and use them to send fraudulent spam." Shocker!

7 of 378 comments (clear)

  1. 0wnz0red by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    | r0x0r ur b0x3n, 0wned.

  2. CAUTION! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    goatse.cx is down for maintenence right now.

    in fact, all .cx I think.

    Happy trollin.

  3. Just kill them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nuke countries who pretend to be too stupid to stop SPAM. Leave them in a green glass mode....never again to bother REAL folks with their shit. Kill them all! One world order should be able to stop this!!! Die Korea!!!

  4. Uh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.

  5. Joe by wideBlueSkies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Me spam you long time. :)

    --
    Huh?
  6. Re:How I block Korean spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kill all killers!!

  7. Re:How I block Korean spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Kill all killer killers!