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?"

Comments

This is a good idea.

[saden1]

When something drastic as this happens it forces change. I think the Spanish ISP and even lawmakers will take notice and take action.

Re:Inevitable, and other countries are next.

[Anonymous Coward]

Use a proxy! :D

Re:you mean BIG?

[Stonent1]

419 is the name of the type of scam not the number of spams. 419 scams are the ones that go something like. "Greetings and blessings upon you as I propose a mutually beneficial business transaction to you. I am Dr. Mobobe Ugame former oil minister for Nigeristan. Due to the recent assasination of our supreme overlord there is billions of dollars in foreign funds that could be accessed if only we had a foreign bank to move the funds to. I am prepared to give you 20% of the total if you can send me $5,000 USD to cover the transaction fees" etc.

Re:you mean BIG?

[An Ominous Cow Erred]

OK maybe you're trolling but I'm going to bite here anyway in case you genuinely don't know.

419 refers to a KIND of spam, the "Nigerian prince wants to give you lots of money" scam and its variants. It refers to the number of the relevant law in the Nigerian penal code.

The actual number of spam mailings coming out of this provider is in the millions, maybe even the tens or hundreds of millions.

Re:Inevitable, and other countries are next.

[dapprman]

Yay !

Blacklist the whole US, after all that's where the vast majority of spam still comes from