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China Blocks Spam Servers

Posted by timothy on from the compulsion-repulsion dept.

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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  1. Article Text by BenFranske · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the predictable /. of the story:

    China Moves to Block Spam Servers
    The Associated Press
    Tuesday, September 9, 2003; 11:47 AM
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    In its latest battle against junk e-mail, China has blocked 127 mail servers it identified as responsible for spam, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

    "This has been the first large-scale spammer blockade launched by the Chinese Internet industry," Ren Jinqiang, an official with the Internet Society of China, was quoted by Xinhua as saying.

    The crackdown came as Chinese Internet users complained they were being bombarded daily with hundreds of junk e-mails, Xinhua said.

    Ren said e-mail messages from 127 servers will automatically be refused. Xinhua said the sanctions would be lifted after the servers stop sending junk mail for three months.

    Ninety of the blocked servers were from Taiwan, eight were from the mainland and 29 were from elsewhere, Xinhua said, without providing other details. It did not say if other countries were being inundated by spam from the same servers.

    Internet service providers in the United States and elsewhere sometimes resort to blocking specific servers in their war on spam. Those efforts succeed in curbing the number of junk messages reaching subscribers, though they can kill legitimate e-mail as well.

    Ren said the blacklist resulted from a month of monitoring by the state-run Internet Society of China, a group of 140 members drawn from private companies, schools and research institutes. The Beijing-based group aims to promote the development of the Internet throughout the country.

    Last month, the group published a list of 225 spam servers around the world.

    With 68 million users, China has the world's second-biggest online population after the United States, according to government statistics.

    Internet use for business and education is encouraged, although the communist government censors chat rooms and tries to block access to foreign sites run by dissidents, human rights groups and news organizations.

  2. Re:No, No, No!!! by DocSnyder · · Score: 3, Informative
    Trying to block spam by blocking email seeming to originate from specific servers just does not work. Email headers can too easily be forged.

    "Received" lines are written by the receiving email system and can't be forged by the sender. Of course the spammer can use some tricks like inserting faked "Received" lines oder the recipient's IP address as HELO string, but no spammer can hide the IP address the spam has been sent from. And these IP addresses will get blocked.

  3. That won't block any SPAM from my inbox by e_AltF4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    >Ninety of the blocked servers were from Taiwan,
    blocking .tw servers should be no problem for .cn, but it's not blocking any spam not going to .cn addresses ?

    >eight were from the mainland
    wow! 8 servers from .cn - great!
    leaves how many still open ? 2^24 ? more ? less ?

    >and 29 were from elsewhere,
    that surely will save us from lots of spam NOT

    nice of them to tell all the world that thy block 127 servers from sending mail to THEM, but i am afraid that won't save the whales or the rain forrest in the very near future :-)

  4. Here's The Blacklist by Pakup · · Score: 5, Informative

    You'll find the list of banned mainland addresses HERE, the list of banned Taiwan addresses HERE, and the list of the other banned addresses HERE. There's a long report in Chinese about the blacklisting HERE; it notes the special effort China's made to close open relays nationwide.

    Here's the list of 29 banned addresses outside the Mainland and Taiwan:

    1. 200.84.154.28 dC8549A1C.dslam-01-1-2-01-01-01.acr.dsl.cantv.net 2. 24.29.146.158 (RoadRunner) 3. 64.15.239.131 mail.bigfoot.com 4. 65.54.247.110 bay2-f110.bay2.hotmail.com 5. 66.218.66.101 n33.grp.scd.yahoo.com

    6. 66.218.66.103 n35.grp.scd.yahoo.com 7. 66.218.66.106n38.grp.scd.yahoo.com 8. 66.218.66.66 n11.grp.scd.yahoo.com 9. 66.218.66.72 n17.grp.scd.yahoo.com 10. 66.218.66.73 n18.grp.scd.yahoo.com

    11. 66.218.66.77 n21.grp.scd.yahoo.com 12. 66.218.66.80 n24.grp.scd.yahoo.com 13. 66.218.66.84 n28.grp.scd.yahoo.com 14. 66.218.66.92 n8.grp.scd.yahoo.com 15. 66.218.78.131 web40514.mail.yahoo.com

    16. 207.199.160.40 (Crosslink, US) 17. 216.33.121.8 www01.rfaweb.org 18. 195.147.87.107 ip03.afrocari.adsl.gxn.net 19. 80.49.187.11 pd11.ostroleka.sdi.tpnet.pl 20. 61.41.62.138 (Mobile Leader, Korea) 21. 203.251.44.102 (Taejon, Korea)

    22. 210.121.220.77 (Woosung, Korea) 23. 211.186.145.100 (Thrunet, Korea) 24. 211.198.226.96 (Korea Telecom) 25. 211.206.199.2 (Sunchunac, Korea)

    26. 202.144.67.19 (Satyam Infoway, India) 27. 193.162.153.2 (Tele Danmark) 28. 24.81.222.210 h24-81-222-210.vc.shawcable.net 29. 202.163.130.7 (Online Training, Australia)

  5. Lawyer for Spammers Tries To Drop Suit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linford-A379E 8.17102005092003%40news.supernews.com&oe=UTF-8&out put=gplain

    The shyster representing the spammer's org tried to drop his frivolous case. Spamhaus won't let him! Not unless he pays legal fees! Aritcle in today's Wired.

    Oh, the URL above, a post by head of Spamhaus, lists the home address of the shyster's atty:

    MARK E FELSTEIN
    2207 S CAROLINA AVE 22
    TAMPA, FL 33609

    Sorry no email address provided. Sure would be a shame if someone got mad at him and signed him up for junk snail mail.