Japanese spam...

[mikea]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:44:01AM +0000, ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk wrote:
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> Last week or 2... I have 50 to 100 messages per day with ".jp" on the end... all out of the blue... is it just me?  or has everyone been getting extra spam from ".jp" ?
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> >From -  akiramenai_2006 at ocn.ne.jp
> Subj -  =?iso-2022-jp?b?gyrcn...

Since I put all .jp netblocks in the blacklist[1], we don't have any
problems with spam from .jp. But I see an _awful_ lot of attempts from
those netblocks. 

[1]  We're state government, we have no business connections with .jp,
     and have *never* received valid E-mail from anyone in .jp.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin