On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Happli, Drew wrote: > Can someone tell me how this would be a bad thing?
it _is_ a bad thing if your clients have business partners, suppliers, clients, friends, colleagues, family members etc in Asia. depending how vital the information that they won't get if you blacklist all known Asian networks is to them, things could turn ugly for you real quick, if you do it without prior notice. from my point of view, people pay mail account providers primarily for the right to _receive_ mail. filtering, beyond normal measures such as open relay/proxy blacklists and blocking known spamhouses, should be an _optional_ extra. if you start blocking entire countries, that's not spam filtering, anyway. > includes Korea, China, and Singapore. All of which have tried to relay spam > through a non-open server (hell they tried on a server that didn't even have hmm, wonder if you get a relay attempt from a US network, will you block all of US? it would be only fair. :) > I've been debating for years banning the whole of Asia from my network. don't know a postmaster who hasn't, from time to time :) if it's your private network, fine. if you have paying clients, ask them first. i would definitely leave a provider who'd do something like that. i like being able to write to my motherboard manufacturer's support address _and_ receive a response.. rgds, netcat _______________________________________________ cobalt-security mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-security
