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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: solutions to the Koran spam problem
>> ...unless someone is suggesting spammers (or perhaps all of Korea) >> should be assigned non-routable IP space. Funny you should mention that. I got so fed up with both the US spam bouncing off Korean relays and the parallel flood of spam originating in Korea (in Korean, with URLs advertising Korean stuff ranging from appliances to dating services to bionic shoe inserts), combined with the fact that I'd never gotten any response to the buckets of abuse reports I'd sent off to Korean ISPs, that I stopped accepting any mail from Korea at all. I know it's indefensible in principle, but even though I have books in Korean translation, I get no real mail from Korea so the collateral damage is for me is imperceptible. The rejection message includes a URL which explains why I don't receive mail from Korea, with an unblocked address to which one can write to get their network off the list. Needless to say, nobody's written. The list contains all APNIC space assigned to Korea, plus any Korean ARIN space that's come to my attention due to getting spammed from it. If you'd like to experiment with a Korea-free mail system, you're welcome to use my blocking list called korea.services.net. I announced it on a few anti-spam lists last week and it's now getting about three hits per second. You can't do zone transfers, it's running rbldns, not bind, but if you use it a lot, we can figure out a way for you to get your own copy of the data. In case it's not obvious, I have nothing against Korea or Koreans except that their enthusiasm for wiring the country for Internet connections has so far severely outstripped their ability to manage what they've built. -- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 727, Trumansburg NY 14886 +1 607 387 6869 [email protected], Village Trustee and Sewer Commissioner, http://iecc.com/johnl, Member, Provisional board, Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail
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