Res wrote: >>> sometimes it is justified, I have .cn .kr .tw and .br to name some >>> blocked because of the extreme levels of spam. Of course it is your choice to do that as an individual. If you were to do that as an administrator for a company or an ISP as a blanket policy it would be quite another matter. You'd be making decisions for other people based on your assumptions/observations/criteria. Some people may characterize that as a dictatorship. I don't think it can be deemed as racist. I say that since I'm an Caucasian male from the United States living in Taiwan. Maybe I would be feel discriminated against based on my choice of location. I happen to use a .com domain but maybe you are blocking not based on the actual TLD but by IP blocks allocated to ISPs in the countries you've mentioned. So, you'd probably block my email based on its location in Taiwan. If you were to check the stats of spamming by country you'd discover that the worst offender is indeed the United States. Please have a look at http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso. Taiwan ranks 8 below those some other countries that you don't block...like Japan and Canada. I find it rather interesting that Canada ranks as high as it does with the relatively small population. Also have a look at http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks.lasso. So, based on your logic and the stats that I do gather from my spamd and grey-list milters I would drastically reduce the amount of spam simpy by blocking the .com domain and/or IPs allocated to ISP's located in the United States. Now, the fact that much of the spam is coming from compromised systems should clue people into how much the 300 million folks in the US take seriously the concept of computer security. (Insert obvious poke at Bill Gates here.) So, if I were to go about using your rules for blocking spam I would get very little email....I also would be cutting all my email ties with my customers in South Korea and Japan. I suppose the upside to that is, I could go back to using FAX and the telephone company would be happy. You're not a plant from those money losing companies, are you? :-)
