{SPAM?} Re: Virus report e-mail

[Steve Evans]

Okay I have a good story to go with this.

Before we were using SpamAssassin I had a user receive a piece of spam.
He had me look at it and the from address was
whatever at something.something.kr  I said, well I could block that address
but it probably won't help because they'll using something else next
time.  He said, well can't you just block everything that ends with .kr.
And I said, that would block all of Korea.  He didn't seem to understand
that that could be a problem.

 
Steve Evans
Computing Services
(619) 594-0653
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 10:19 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: {SPAM?} Re: Virus report e-mail


At 18:11 30/06/2002, you wrote:
>One good reason not to is that .uk is listed, that'll be why 
>rfc-ignorant flagged it.

The whole country? Wow! Now that's what I call a broad brush...
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ