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

We will get you all!

[Anonymous Coward]

Do not worry, your ISP will be added soon, very soon ;)

Re:Inevitable, and other countries are next.

[Daengbo]

Yeah, know what? I don't find most Thai women very attractive, either. Luckily, there are a few (non-hookers) and all those from chinese ancestry to choose from.

Re:Inevitable, and other countries are next.

[tarunthegreat]

Frankly I don't see how this will stop spamming. What about spoofing, and web-based e-mail services. When I log into Yahoo, I'm porbably accessing a server in USA..and if use my account to spam, what r they gonna do? This whole thing is a pointless exercise, and also stinks of a little racism -> I suspect that Bush is behind this: "Let's block countries that pull their troops out Iraq. TAKE THAT!"

Re:about time

[operagost]

The only thing that's gone "horribly wrong" here is having a government monopoly on the internet in Spain. All they need is a law against encryption like another truly liberte nation, France, and the new socialist regime will hold its netziens in an iron grip. Of course, they'll be getting what they asked for.

I solved the English spam problem. Interested?...

[iamcf13]

Read the post here.

If you were using my program CF13, all your spam would have been funneled into two files for ease of perusal and deletion and all spam attachments (which are likely virus laden) would have been rendered 'harmless' and clearly labeled making it easy to delete them.

I have also programmed a 'spamblaster' version of CF13 to delete spam at the server level whenever possible but that would inevitably lead to a 'false positive' and a non-spam email being deleted as a result. It's advantage is that 'spams are counted but not logged and stored'. Since you are drowning in spam, my program could possibly help you.

Someone has a political agenda?

[realkiwi]

Change your governement. Pull out of Iraq and get your main telecoms operator taken off the net...

We are talking about American originating spam being rerouted through owned Spanish Windows boxes here or what?

Blacklists are good but only when they take out spammers - not innocent bystanders. Taking out an ISP is the same thing as doing a drive by shooting at the lunch bell of your local high school...

Re:Inevitable, and other countries are next.

[frost22]

This is just egocentric crap! We are frequently blocked because our netblock is a source of spam.

Good. Apparently the system works.

The ultimate provider is controlled by a branch of the Chinese government. Like most people here, we have no choice, or influence over our ISP. The logic in the post is therefore fatally flawed.

It isnt. Since whoever has monopoly over there isnt technically or operationally competent to connect you to the internet, you have no internet connection. If the government is the problem, get another.

Be aware, that the fastest growing power in IT and related is China. Do you really want to exclude that potential source of business enquiry?

If it serves to stop spam ? Certainly.

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[Obscenity]

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