Japanese spam...

[Dan Hollis]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, mikea wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:44:01AM +0000, ajos1 at onion.demon.co.uk wrote:
>> 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" ?
>>> 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.

Easier to just block iso-2022-jp (and euc-kr, big5, etc). That will block 
japanese spams no matter what IP they come from.

-Dan