From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 11: 2: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D06637B405 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10504; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:01:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:01:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: randy Cc: Kirk Strauser , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Korea (was: Sendmail Spam RBL) In-Reply-To: <20020620135717.T36018-100000@desert.turbowarp.net> Message-ID: 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 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" 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