Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: terryc Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Dud: ISP so send mail directly? Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:42:31 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d64ee18992a27fc06ca93e95508677ab"; logging-data="26483"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4zZ6E3AzKxPb4NqY8lmx+" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120925 Icedove/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:7z1qs0LYsFfbK+nigRLIqCpKVr4= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.networking:1718 comp.mail.sendmail:1285 On 12/10/12 20:54, no.top.post@gmail.com wrote: > In article, terryc wrote: > >> On 12/10/12 09:53, Chris Davies wrote: >>> David Brown wrote: >>>> Any self-respecting ISP will block all outgoing SMTP traffic that is not >>>> going directly to its own email relays [...] >>> >>> That's very much the exception here in the UK. (Unfortunately.) >> >> Interesting. Regional effect? After running the incoming address through >> zen.spamhaus which blocks 99% and thus saves me download fees, the >> majority. for me, of "spam" now comes through Asian language IPs (cn& >> jp). I do have B, C& D(IP) blocks on Korean as well. >> > ! Yes, currently I'm getting a wave from *.jp > Last time/S there were some international games on, a spam-wave > also came from the far east. Strange? My understanding isthe Korea is the worlds biggest games market, so there is a bit of by wash around from spamming related tothat.