From: "lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hello everyone, > > With IP addresses, do the blocks of numbers have any specific meaning or > location-specific detail? > > For eg, lots of spam I'm getting sent to one of my domain's addresses > with netsky attachments always shows 203.221 as the first two IP blocks > when I look at the received header. The actual apparent sender address > is always different but often <something>@hotmail.com > > I don't know if such knowledge would then allow me to (safely) set a > filter or rule somewhere in my cpanel or spam assassin to just discard > any mail from that person(s). > Ideally, I would like to set a filter(s) in my cpanel 9 hosting to just > discard based on one or more rules, but the email filtering seems quite > inflexible and basic. > > I do have avast! virus scanning on my pc which always picks up and warns > of the incoming nasty, but I'm trying to avoid such emails getting > through my domain in the first place, even if I was to manage > configuring spam assassin to flag them as SPAM. > > Thanks a lot, > lee
A simple "whois" query indicates this is a set of addresses "owned" by Comindico in Oz. If you don't have "whois" handy visit the http://www.dnsstuff.com/ site and play there. Whois is on the left. {^_^}
