Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:01:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: randy <randy@turbowarp.net> Cc: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Korea (was: Sendmail Spam RBL) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10206201400540.19911-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20020620135717.T36018-100000@desert.turbowarp.net>
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Its not just korea - a good portion of the spam coming here ends .br And none of these systems have an abuse@ alias! On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, randy wrote: > > > On 20 Jun 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > > > At 2002-06-20T15:56:02Z, "Marius Kirschner" <marius@agoron.com> writes: > > > > > Yeah, I've entered whole Korean subnets into our 'access list' because it > > > got so bad. Nothing against Korea but we've been getting swamped by spam > > > originating there. > > > > In all fairness to them, it's probably not even originating there. Maybe > > Korea has some weird law requiring servers to act as open relays, or maybe > > that's part of the computing culture or something, but many of the emails > > have been relayed from originators in Western countries. > > The emails I get from Korea are all in Korean. I only get 3-4 per day, > each time from different host. On my client, I just rule out Korean > character set, so they go away without being seen. > > We have some employees who read/write in Korean so we can't stop the > Korean at the server. > > > > > I feel badly for the legitimate users in Korea who are bearing the price of > > their system administrators' mistakes. > > -- > > Kirk Strauser > > The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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