On Tuesday 23 January 2007 11:36 am, Chris Louden wrote: > Here is the blacklist in full
... <list snipped> ... At first glance, well, for most of us, why not ... Here's why not (these are only the ones coming into focus for me right now, the ones I've chosen to not comment on may be just as important): > 24.132 REJECT #netherlands The Netherlands send an extremely small amount of spam. They have a large webhosting presence, and many Netherlands sites on the 'net work in US Dollars and have .com domains. Many legitimate sites. Because of The Netherlands' culture, many porno sites are posted there. Block the Netherlands and you block many of your porn-loving users from getting their passwords. Depending on how you feel about porn, that may be a good thing or a bad thing. > 65.52 REJECT #microsoft > 65.53 REJECT #microsoft > 65.54 REJECT #microsoft > 65.55 REJECT #microsoft So none of your users ever have to hear from Microsoft? > 67.52 REJECT #roadrunner > 67.53 REJECT #roadrunner Some real people have roadrunner email addresses. You should be blocking based on roadrunner return addresses that don't come from roadrunner, but not from roadrunner. Unless you want to balkanize the 'net. > 69.10 REJECT #brazil I guess you're never going to Carnival at Rio? You'll never get to meet the "Girl from Ipanema" <smile>. > 70.84 REJECT #theplanet > 70.85 REJECT #theplanet > 70.86 REJECT #theplanet > 70.87 REJECT #theplanet See "roadrunner", above. > 71.9 REJECT #charter communications See "roadrunner", above. You may block half the people in Riverside on this list as well. > 138.217 REJECT #telstra internet australia > 144.133 REJECT #telstra australial > 160.80 REJECT #uniroma2.it > 164.77 REJECT #uruguay > 168.187 REJECT #kuwait > 168.234 REJECT #guatemala See "roadrunner" above. > 196.2.64.0/20 REJECT #afrinic > 196.203 REJECT #africa > 196.204 REJECT #afrinic > 196.33 REJECT #south africa > 196.34 REJECT #south africa > 196.36 REJECT #south africa > 196.38 REJECT #south africa > 196.39 REJECT #south africa > 196.205 REJECT #ripe afrinic > 200 REJECT #lacnic > 201 REJECT #lacnic See "roadrunner" above. > 202 REJECT #china > 203 REJECT #china The U.S. sends more spam than China. Why not just unplug your server? > 213 REJECT #ripe amsterdam See "The Netherlands" above > 219 REJECT #china See "China", above. Note that we host email for lots of domains, some of them even located in some of these countries. So our mileage may be very different from yours. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
