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Eugene Morozov writes: > "Don Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am so new to SA that I haven't even installed it yet. However I consider > > myself a "user expert" at receiving, reviewing and reporting SPAM; however, > > I am not a network expert at tracking it. But I do believe this. > > > > I have reviewed the SA documentation and have reviewed the doc of many other > > tools as well. I believe a lot of wasted effort is expended on tracking > > where SPAM came from and not where it is going. i.e. They say the way to > > solve a mystery is trudge through the spin doctors and lies and simply > > "follow the money". > > > > If I could find some SPAM killing software that has a routine to scan the > > body text for URLs and trash anything with a URL pointing to China, South > > America, Korea, Pakistan, Ukraine, etc., almost all my SPAM would be > > eliminated. Can a routine be created to read the table that identifies IP > > address ranges and the owning domain body (ARIN, APNIC, LANIC, etc.) be used > > to quick flag SPAM like this? Why has no one jumped on this? What am I > > missing? > > You're missing the point that USA isn't the whole world > and there're people living in China, South America, > Korea, Pakistan etc. who also deserve to use email and > to be able to have correspondence with anyone they like > from any place of the world. Also, according to various > sources, most spam originates in USA. > Eugene Eugene is right, on both counts. it's worth noting that nowadays spammers seem to prefer compromising machines on US-based broadband networks. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFAW2UmQTcbUG5Y7woRAtMOAKDaMUwEpTNA+WReYmfhJJP74LCtewCePXhZ fBLl9ss7AArKxQHM+k7Poos= =ytQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
