In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/28/2006
at 06:44 PM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>First time I've ever heard of a company blacklisting an entire
>country.
It happens when they get lots of spam from the company and the cost of
dealing with the spam is greater than the cost of losing potential
customers there. Wasn't there a flap a while back when verizon
blocked all of the EU? There are also several APNIC countries that are
widely blocked.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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