[Phpwm] Software Patents Petition

[alan dunn]

The thread about selectively blocking emails by region is interesting. 
Can you give a guide to sources of information about how IP addresses 
are structured so we can pick our black list as well. (Let's call that a 
block list so as not to create any incorrect impressions!)
alan dunn

Phil Beynon wrote:
>>>>> I agree in principle with the concept of e-government, as long
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> as its not
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> simply to make people feel good with all the actual responses going
>>>>> dev>null.
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>>>> /dev/null, I'll have you know :-)
>>>>
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>>> oh is that why it didnt work...... :p
>>>
>>>
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>>>>> Maybe its just me being old and cynical! :-)
>>>>>
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>>>> Unlikely...
>>>>
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>>> You never know.....
>>> Well better get some work done, just in the process of mass banning the
>>> eastern european IP address that have been spamming my servers over the
>>> holiday. They might have joined teh EU but they are just aout
>>>       
>> to leaver my
>>     
>>> little corner of the internet!
>>>
>>> P
>>>       
>> Greylisting - its the future - I now get 1% of the spam i used to by
>> implementing greylisting in Exim.
>>     
>
> The policy I work on is if it is a EU, North American or Australasian
> country they get the one IP blocked, Eastern European ones get the bottom
> octet blocked (256 IPs), Arabian, Asian, Indian subcontinent, African, far
> Eastern ones get the bottom two octets blocked (65535 IPs).
> So far no customer has complained about it.
>
> I would imagine this policy could be considered by some as racist, but most
> of my customers are small companies trading either locally or within the EU
> and US / Canada. They simply don't need emails from these other places, with
> the sheer weight of spam that is now happening, and the way it is
> diminishing the effectiveness of email as a business tool its not a policy
> that I'm about to amend.
>
> Phil
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