China Blocks Spam Servers

clafarge writes "I just read in the AP's LiveWire that, as reported by Xinhua News Agency, China has blocked 127 mail servers which it identifies as major sources of spam. Oh, happy day. They also published a list of 225 spam servers around the world just last month." Guess they're following through on this.

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China Blocks Spam Servers

[RinzeWind]

So now China can only get mail from the rest of the world, but not from inside. That's the deal, isn't it?

Re:China Blocks Spam Servers

[cioxx]

The funny part is, communists will have much more success with stopping (or at least substantially curbing) the spam problem than western democracies. All China has to do is to look at the current situation, cut the lifelines of these companies which send bulk mail, and execute a few people to set an example.

eh?

[pergamon]

YAY CHINA!

Wait, that doesn't sound right...

Nooooo!

[GarbanzoBean]

All my asian college friends can no longer send me a suggestions on how to increase my breast/penis/bank acount. I guess there are always Carribian islands.

Re:Nooooo!

[btg]

All my asian college friends can no longer send me a suggestions on how to increase my breast/penis/bank acount.

You have a breast account and a penis account?

Eww. Squishy.

Suit yourselves, China...

[Derlum]

...but you're missing out. I just refinanced my mortgage for the third time this month, helped get a chunk of change out of Nigeria, and finally broke nine inches!

Re:Double Whammy

[bobdown2001]

Actually it was a guy from New Zealand who did this...... Let's make the distiction that Australia and New Zealand are two totally seperate countries, how would you like it if I called you a Canadian ;-)

Fortune Cookies

[future assassin]

Maybe the spamers will pay off restaurant owners to spam through fortune cookies. Vigra will make you lucky in the future.

Future Assassin

Only 127?

[Jailbrekr]

I guess when they upgraded from an 8 bit OS, they can block more. :)

A shame

[veg_all]

Think of all the small penises neglected.

Re:Hard to decide, is it?

[wheany]

Hey, they're either with us or against us! They can't be both good and bad.

A whole 127 Servers?

[Mnemennth]

Wow... that must have been the hiccup I saw in my Inbox between 07:08 and 07:11 while pouring cream into my coffee...

Mnem
"It takes a special man to water his lawn with an eyedropper."

Only 127?

[tntguy]

Damn, they should've used an unsigned char. They could've closed 255 instead of only 127. Or they could've used an int and closed 2,147,483,647.

I don't think an unsigned int, nor a long long would've been necessary.

Re:Double Whammy

[NanoGator]

"Let's make the distiction that Australia and New Zealand are two totally seperate countries, how would you like it if I called you a Canadian ;-) "

I'd probably use that as an IQ test for ya. You see, as an average Slashdotter, there are a few simple ways to guage somebody's entire intelligence quotient.

- Did he distinguish beteen Canada and the United States?

- Did he refrain from using smilies or internet shorthand?

- Did he use apostrophe's correctly?

- Does he praise Linux and Mozilla?

- Did he correctly spell all the words in his post, especially the long ones that people rarely use?

- Does he hate George Bush?

If any of these questions are answered no, then your IQ is zilch! ;)

Don't take it personally, I'm just going with the flow!

Bah again

[BrokenHalo]

Now if only someone would just block all those US spammers...

After all, if my penis grew by 100% overnight, I think my wife might complain :-)

The ultimate SPAM-filter!!

[zeptic]

Do as my Professor: reject all emails originating from .com adresses!


(This is not a joke! He really does reject all .com emails.)

Re:90 Taiwanese servers blocked..

[Flwyd]

In Communist China, "Make Money Fast!" is a political statement.