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Verizon vs. Europe

Posted by Hemos on from the who-knows-the-truth dept.

mikrorechner writes "The Register has a story about Verizon blocking all incoming email from Europe since 22 December. Why? To reduce spam. I know that some providers block countries like South Korea by default, but I was not aware that Europe was seen as a major spam source. Well, it seems Verizon knows better..."

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  1. Native language spam by GtKincaid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Living in europe , and having several difrent european email address , i cant recall one bit of spam that came from the EU .. im not saying it dosnt exist but logicaly since i have a .de email address (germany)
    why is all my spam in American english (im not german i only live here) but everyone i talk to around here gets a vast marjority of the spam from companys in the USA........anyway...

    Verizons policy seems to be the equvilent of chopping off your legs because you have a rash on you right big toe!

    1. Re:Native language spam by hankwang · · Score: 2, Interesting
      i cant recall one bit of spam that came from the EU

      I think the issue is about zombies; internet-connected home computers with a trojan that sends spam with a different From address. Trace the IP addresses in the headers and see whether they really don't come from within the EU. (Spamcop.net can do this job for you, and detect forged headers)

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  2. seems fair by martin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    alot of people block email from verizon (or containing verizon URL's in the body) as they seem to host alot of spammers :-)