[70579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Wed May 19 19:55:31 2004
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:54:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@mandarin.com, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405200037240.2032-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Richard Cox wrote:
> > While this is verging off our remit here, I would clarify the point
> > originally made, which is that if a URL - that is, a URL cited in the
> > body of a message - points to an IP physically located in China, then
> > that signals a high probability of the message being spam.
> Altho this is probably not true if you're one of the billion or so people who
> live in or around China or are of Chinese origin..
Actually mainland chinese non-spammers seem to prefer offshore hosting eg
hk, taiwan, japan or north america.
I guess all the mainland chinese webhosting is all taken up by spam
operators or something.
-Dan
