I have resorted to such tactics only in the case of the 202.x.x.x net block, most of which is in China. Probably because of the political issues over there, many bozos over there have resorted to major-league relaying. I used to get a fair amount of spam from there, also. Ireland? Can't remember even one from *.ie recently (no false-negatives, anyway!).
-- Bob -- On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Nix wrote: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Justin Mason said: > > Folks -- > > > > just to add to this thread of absurd spam filtering. > > > > Without naming names -- if you're going to mail me directly, and you're > > blocking all mail from .ie using one of those country code blacklists, > > *boggle* *boggle* *boggle* > > WHY?! > > > I strongly doubt that blocking > > all mail from Ireland (a) reduces your spam load one iota > > Pretty much exactly one iota. Out of 3899 spams in my spambox right now, > I have two that claim to come from .ie, one from yahoo.ie and one from > iol.ie. > > For comparison, I have 73 that claim to come from various .uk domains > other than my own, 5 that claim to come from .za, and 2321 that come > from .com. > > Judging by this random sample of TLDs, it looks like .ie should be > carefully left unblocked while everything else is blocked; the only less > spam-named TLDs I've found are .gov (one spam), .mil (none), and > .in-addr.arpa. :) > > -- _______________________________ Bob Sully - Malibyte Consulting Simi Valley, California, USA http://www.malibyte.com "Years of dedication, and a natural inclination" - J. Buffett ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
