David Nelson wrote: > I subscribe to ip2location.com, which provides geolocation services by > IP address. The info is downloaded on nightly from their web servers > and put into a database. I check the IP addresses contained in the > message against the database and if it's from a foreign country, I block > it.
Isn't that a little draconian? After all, most spam originates in the US and Canada. (And we couldn't possibly implement such a policy; about 90% of our customers and 95% of our revenue are from a "foreign country." :-)) You can also get a free (but probably less accurate) database mapping IP address to country from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ We use it on our Web site; if someone fills in a form claiming to be from Canada, but their IP address says Moldova, we treat the request with a little extra skepticism. Regards, David. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
