From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 10:59:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from desert.turbowarp.net (turbowarp.net [198.78.66.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F85437B409 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (randy@localhost) by desert.turbowarp.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5KHxQP51815; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:59:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from randy@turbowarp.net) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:59:26 -0400 (EDT) From: randy To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Korea (was: Sendmail Spam RBL) In-Reply-To: <871yb1q1kj.fsf@pooh.int> Message-ID: <20020620135717.T36018-100000@desert.turbowarp.net> 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 On 20 Jun 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > 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. 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