Re: Top spam hosters, how to decline email mentioning them

Nigel Frankcom wrote the following on 10/21/2007 11:22 PM -0800:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 23:27:41 -0500, Igor Chudov <ichudov@Algebra.Com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> I was looking at this article
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam
>>
>> It claims that "only five countries are hosting 99.68% of the global
>> spammer websites", of which the foremost is China, hosting 73.58% of
>> all web sites referenced within spam.[30]
>>
>> I already refuse all email coming from China (and Korea). Never
>> regretted this.
>>
>> Now, I also want to ignore all emails mentioning all China and Korea
>> hosted websites (not just .cn, but also .coms and so on that have
>> Chinese IPs).
>>
>> I will have to not do so with Russia hosted sites, due to me being a
>> Russian by origin.
>>
>> Is there some tool that I could use to accomplish that?
>>
>
> Perhaps it's a translation thing; but I was under the impression he
> wanted to drop these early, not run them through the entire mail/sa
> process first?
>
> (In defence of my MTA comments :-D)
>
> Nigel
>

I don't how one could determine the IP address associated with a URL in the body of a message at the MTA level without accepting the message first for further processing. The best you could do at the MTA level is block URLs that have a certain extension like .cn, but that's not what the OP was asking for, and explicitly stated as much.

Bill Received on Mon Oct 22 03:08:18 2007