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[Matt Kettler]

Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote:
>> Dan Hollis wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>>> Besides milter-sender there's also milter-ahead which checks the 'to'
>>>> address existing on your system (if you're not using sendmail see the
>>>> mailScanner wiki for your MTA on how to do this). Again using this
>>>> technique you can drop over 66% of inbound traffic...
>>> Is there any milter which checks the SOA of URLs in the message body and
>>> drops them if the SOA is in china (or pakistan, or wherever)?
>> Not that I know of.
>> That and you'd probably have a lot more false positives here than you
>> expect.
>>
>> With the amount of "farming out" of basic web-presence services, where
>> the
>> website's DNS hosting lives really has very little to do with where
>> the company
>> that owns it is.
>> I mean, if I get re-routed to India when I call a US-based company for
>> tech
>> support, why should I expect to have a US-based DNS server for their
>> website?
> 
> Why shouldn't I be able to blacklist individual known spam SOAs?


That's perfectly reasonable.. But it's not what you asked for. You asked for
geographic location based blacklisting.