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Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Wed May 19 18:28:59 2004

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:28:21 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: jcouzens@6o4.ca
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1085004749.8605.80.camel@antitrust.6o4.ca>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



On 5/19/2004 5:12 PM, James Couzens (jcouzens@6o4.ca) wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:49, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> 
>> There's one rule that will wipe out ~90% of spam, but nobody seems to
>> have written it yet.
>> 
>> if URL IP addr is in China then score=100
      ^^^

not connection address, not domain 'owner', but URL->Hostname->IP_ADDR

What's most interesting about the half-dozen accusations of xenophobia
I've received (off-list and on) is that they've almost all come from
foreigners. I promise not to read anything into that. Really.

-- 
Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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