[79691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Apr 14 02:01:42 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:58:09 +0300
To: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <20050413110033.C53794-100000@www.mauigateway.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 11:26 AM 13-04-05 -1000, Scott Weeks wrote:
If based on statistics (from 2004), then I think we should block
California, New York, Texas and Florida:
http://www.fraud.org/2004-internet%20scams.pdf
Those 4 together exceed all foreign countries for fraud origination.
:-)
-Hank
>To those suggesting a block of 41/8 to stop the Nigerian 419 problem or
>any other percieved problem:
>
>C'mon Africa != Nigeria. It's an entire friggin' continent with 53 other
>countries besides Nigeria. How does that saying go? "I encourage my
>competitors to do this." (Oh yeah, don't forget to block all Chinese IP
>addresses while you're at it. That's only one country... 8-) Do you
>REALLY think blocking 41/8 will stop those emails?
