Consolidated spammy countries rbl

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Tony Enderby wrote:

> Hugo,
>
> I should have prefaced my original post about this zone with the fact that I 
> put it together
> based on the current geographic flow of email that my clients receive.  It 
> certainly isn't for everyone, nor
> does it intelligently discern.
>
> The point about including the US zone is very valid as you noted, it ranks 
> amongst the top countries of
> spam origin. The networks I service however receive a significant amount of 
> email from the US and although
> a percentage of it is Spam, the majority of it is legitimate. Most of the 
> other countries in the zone however send
> nothing but Spam to my networks and my client base have no desire to receive 
> email from these locations either.
>
> I have been using this for a quite a while and when going back through the 
> list posts I noticed there were some individuals
> who were interested in blocking by country.  I only posted it because of this 
> and to save folks who wanted to do it the need
> to include individual zones provided by countries.nerd.dk

And that is your flaw. Whatever fits your traffic pattern will not match 
someone elses. So show them the trick to build their own list but do not 
publish yours as RBL.

Hugo.

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