From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 10:53:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB0E37B404 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:53:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5KHrGLe015842 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:53:17 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17L67Q-0000NP-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:53:16 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Korea (was: Sendmail Spam RBL) References: <03bf01c21872$fa71de20$5ae9b5ce@quasi1> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 20 Jun 2002 12:53:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <03bf01c21872$fa71de20$5ae9b5ce@quasi1> Message-ID: <871yb1q1kj.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-06-20T15:56:02Z, "Marius Kirschner" 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. 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