Hi Sandip,
I agree that spam and cracking from some countries in the region are a
major problem. For instance, I do keep getting probed from China all
the time, and I'm reasonably sure that their policy is to remain dumb
on all reports of abuse. Fine, China is likely to get as marginalised
in the Internet as it was in the economic world some time back. I
also realise that if that is the case, it's up to me as a system admin
to take necessary measures to protect my servers and my data, not to
go around putting mindless bans on IP's.
>From another perspective, just because there're laws and a police
force in the country I live in doesn't mean that I go around leaving
my front door open when I'm out of the house. The same applies to the
Internet: there're laws, and there're people on whom you can't
enforce laws. It's up to you how you handle your security.
I find combinations of access db and the new sendmail rblns feature to
be quite sufficient for my purposes for blocking spam. Add Amavis,
and virus protection becomes an option too.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sandip> Hi Raj! It is indeed extremely stoopid and
Sandip> cut-the-corners kinda approach taken by this sample.
Sandip> However, he is right in one thing ... most of the SPAM
Sandip> problems are occuring through servers in Asia. I monitor a
Sandip> couple of medium traffic web mail systems, and the
Sandip> spamming incidents are indeed worrisome. There are servers
Sandip> in Japan, and other east asian countries which keep on
Sandip> being the source of a large amount of spam.
Sandip> Even after sending repeated mails to them, they simply do
Sandip> not respond. Through their irresponsible actions they are
Sandip> making other countries in the region the target of
Sandip> world-wide action.Till some time back, some of the leading
Sandip> ISPs of this country were open mail relays. I agree, that
Sandip> some of the folks, like the bloke you just had a tiff
Sandip> with, can't tell one Asian country from the next and hence
Sandip> make stupid generalisation judgements.
Sandip> Is there ANY way of making these places accountable or in
Sandip> other cases, just suffer??
Sandip> RBLs are not being used by many ISPs. The ones that do,
Sandip> use such insane judgements that they make me real
Sandip> pissed. I remember a few sites like Topica, which has
Sandip> banned the whole bigfoot.com domain!! This is so
Sandip> stupid. One can easily use fake domains while sending
Sandip> mails! You don't even have to spoof IPs for sending mails
Sandip> to these servers.
Sandip> Really, I am really concerned about these SPAM
Sandip> issues. What are other folks on this list about it???
Sandip> - Sandip -- ------------------------------------- Sandip
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