[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Living in a country outside the US (realistically, all countries > inthe world, with just one exception, are outside the US) I must say > that I get spam from many places ... including said united states. > > Why wouldn't just everybody - in every country - block mails from > anywhere else?
I live in the US, and I'm philosophically opposed to blocking emails from a particular country. Gr(a|e)ylisting I'm fine with. But even if (say) Ptomania was barred by the UN from ever doing business with any other country; if logs going back ten years conclusively showed that every email ever received from Ptomania was demonstratibly spam or viral; if there was evidence that a team of virus writers was developing new viruses every day and seeding them from Ptomanian mail servers; if ICANN dedicated a class A IP network solely for Ptomanian use in perpetuity; yes, even if all these things were true, I would /still/ refuse to block mail from that IP network. Why? Because it's wrong. I cannot prove this... but it /is/... in the same sense that Mt. Everest /is/, or that Elmer Kogan /isn't/. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer
