On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 08:29 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > David Cary Hart wrote: > > BTW, rbldnsd uses considerably less memory than NTPD. Blocking China and > > Korea is an extremely effective technique. If we ever get a client in > > the PRC, I'll be sure to whitelist them -;) > > Some people tend to have Canada in the list too. For whatever reason. > One person added entire .ca because he got single spam from Canadian > address (talk about trigger happy). > > Anyhow, in todays world, blocking entire countries sucks. It kills > mobility. If somebody who's on vacation or bussiness trip in one of > those countries sends email to one of your users, it'll get blocked. > Now, you can say that possibility of that is low, but you never know > when you'll get bitten. If you are doing such limitations, why stop > half-way, why not create a list of countries you want to communicate > with, and ban all the rest? ---- spoken like a true American ;-) ---- > Because it is bad idea? ---- that would not be the conclusion of a true American ;-) This post by an American replying to post by non-American Craig
