[TriLUG] Spamassassin to filter non-US

Michael Peters mpeters at plusthree.com
Thu Oct 2 12:12:59 EDT 2008


Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> If you must block
> IPs, pick some known-foreign ranges (eg. Chinese, Russian) and call it
> good, but don't waste time trying to find an exhaustive or
> authoritative list.

Another wrinkle in this is that most spam comes from botnets which are world-wide. Just cause you're 
blocking the chinese machines in a bot net doesn't mean it won't send to you.

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP




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