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Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Wed May 19 19:56:55 2004 
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 originally made, which is that if a URL - that is, a URL cited in the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