[lug] Anyone here speak Korean?

[D. Stimits]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> On 01-17 08:33, Riggs, Rob wrote:
> > I find it easier to reject all mail from the Asian-Pacific countries
> > altogether. Rejecting mail from 210. and 211. networks reduces spam greatly.
> > It sucks and I hate to do that, but all I get from those IP blocks is noise.
> 
> While we are on this topic, does anyone know of any way to get procmail to
> block email that has non-ASCII (or non-printable?) characters in it? MIME
> attachments will still come through, right? I've been getting a lot of mail
> that was intended to be in some Asian character set (Taiwanese?), some of it
> from a .tw domain, I believe. Very annoying. It's one thing to spam, it's
> quite another to be spamming folks in such a scatter-shot fashion that you
> don't even send it in the language they read. :)

Yes, and the spam from other languages is very difficult to send a
"don't send to me" complaint...they probably don't read english, or else
would pretend not to. But since I point directly at my ISP's POP server,
I don't run sendmail in a way that I could use it to reject anyway. I
really wish my ISP had a feature to reject based on various criteria.
But if I *did* run sendmail and something like fetchmail, my ISP would
still accept the email...would a bounce rule actually cause a real
bounce that the sender would see? Or would it just keep it from going to
me in the end, and the sender would keep spamming without any idea it
was being blocked on the local home machine?

> 
> I don't want to block whole IP blocks, though, because after a quick grep of
> my mailboxes, some of the worthwhile contributors to some of the mailing
> lists I am on have at least 210.x.x.x in their headers. I didn't check for
> 211.

I agree here, but I already have most of those addresses firewalled due
to number of crack attempts from the ip range. However, since the email
is going to my ISP and not directly to me, firewalling is again
completely useless against spam...my ISP's POP email box still accepts
it, my ISP does not firewall against the address ranges.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

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