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Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked
Andrew D Kirch writes "After being barraged by spam and 419 scams from Rima-TDE and telefonica.es [translated], the AHBL has announced that all of Spain's national ISP's e-mail will be blocked by their blacklisting service. One has to ask though, is blocking an entire country like this the future of spamfighting, or has something gone horribly wrong?"
I, for one, would welcome it, living in the US. Get rid of my spam AND my e-mail. Productivity would go through the roof.
I guess paying off SCO warrants a blackhole entry as well:
EV1
Now that is a cool idea!
I don't recieve email from friends in other countries. NEVER. So if a mail service could filter out anything that wasn't comming from the good ol USA, that would we sweet!
Granted I know some places have servers elsewhere, but then the should put some here in the US then shouldn't they?
It might operate reliably for a while, then start to get compromize itself slowly...
Much like the U.S. government.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Well, the problem was that you were being taxed to fund a large army (when you don't need an army, just a militia) that took it's orders from a man called George who only got his position because his father had it before him.
This is a good idea, but it doesn't go far enough.
I didn't just block Spain. I set my system to blackhole the whole damn world!
Just think of it! All over the world, anybody tries to send me email, and it disappears into a black hole. Eat dirt, spammers!
And of course all the legitimate email disappears as well. But that's the point! When I talk to someone and they complain that I didn't respond to their email, I explain that it's not me - it's their world's policies about spam! Once you get your act together and get spam off the net, then I'll unblock you, I say. Until then, don't come crying to me - talk to your ISP, to your elected representatives, to the UN. That's where the problem is, and until you can solve it with them... you're blocked.
Yup. I figure this spam business is going to get cleaned up PDQ once people realize what it's costing them. We're going to get a nice, spam-free net, and it's all because of me. You're welcome.
...the Spammers have already won!
Not to mention that politicians can pass laws sending spammers to prison. I can just see it now, J. Random Spammer, in a cell with Samson The Serial Sodomist, who wants to have words about that "herbal viagra" that didn't work so well.
Moderator, please ban this user who is spamming slashdot with a 419 scam.
Go ahead and send a million spams using Yahoo or Hotmail's web interface. Go ahead, I dare you. Come back in 10 or 11 years when you're done. Or you can run a mail server, and get a clue how SMTP works, and how its EASY to tell where the spam comes from (as far as who gave it to your mailserver. Beyond that, the headers can be forged.) If you get nothing but 419s from 210/8, then you might want to block it. GAFC before spouting off your tinfoil hat racist bullshit and making yourself look like a frothing fuckwit.
This reminds me of the highly scientific statistical research I did based on spam I receive, most of which originates from USA...
The conclusion of the research:
Americans have small, limp penises.
-=- 4ntifa -=-
They accidentally typed the following in a config file:
.es TLD for spamish servers
.vi TLD for U.S. virgin islands
.ng TLD for Nigeria
.ph TLD for the Philipenis
See, just that one letter messed up the whole country when it was caught by a filter run on the config file. Look for similar things to happen to:
Seriously, haven't these folks ever heard of a spell checker?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
However, Chinese authorities have no tolerance against people who download anti-regime propaganda, or who sympathize with Falun Gong.
Hence, I solved my Chinese spam problem by adding the following to my sendmail.mc (it's only 4 lines, but Slashdot will probably cut the 3rd...):
# Really give the Chinese Spammers a mouthful...
changequote([[,]])dnl
define([[confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG]], [[EFGIC: U.S. Congress Condemns China's Oppression of Falun Gong on\nU.S. Soil and in China\n\nHouse Concurrent Resolution 304 calls on China's agents in\n the United States to halt all operations being carried out against\n practitioners of Falun Gong on United States' soil, as well as the brutal\n persecution of millions inside China.\n\nLONDON (EFGIC) - Last week, the US Congress introduced a concurrent\n resolution calling on the Chinese government to end its brutal\n persecution of Falun Gong in China and stop all activities against Falun\n Gong practitioners inside the United States.\n House Concurrent Resolution 304 (full text), introduced by Congresswoman\n Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, references China's own constitution and\n international human rights accords in calling for China to uphold\n freedom of belief, assembly, and speech for the millions of Falun Gong\n practitioners in Mainland China.\n Resolution 304 also specifically mentioned section 401(a)(1)(B) of the\n International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6401(a)(1)(B)):\n \"Whereas the Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of\n religion, the right to assemble, and the right to speak freely, and the\n people of the United States strongly value protecting the ability of all\n people to live without fear and in accordance with their personal\n beliefs...\"\n Harassment, libel, and imprisonment have been widespread in\n Jiang Zemin's four-year campaign to eradicate Falun Gong. Torture and\n abuse in custody have led to thousands of wrongful deaths.\n]])dnl
changequote(`,')dnl
This will change your sendmail banner in such a way that spammers, should they dare to send to you, get a surprise visit from the political police ;-)
Say no to software patents.
The conclusion of the research: Americans have small, limp penises.
And you Europeans wonder why we drive huge SUVs and build gigantic houses!
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
pretty simple.
that upstanding Chinese citizen learns a harsh lesson about firewalling and keeping one's OS patched
Sounds like sour grapes over pulling out of the Iraq war to me!