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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.
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