On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
A long time. We're blocking huge parts of the Asian and European networks right now in the Spamblock system, and in fact, I'd estimate that 80% of all entries made are non-US these days.
95% of the spam attacks we see come from the USA, advertising USA services, 99% with forged headers (yahoo, hotmail, msn, prodigy and earthlink are tops, juno and bigfoot much less now). 5% and growing are people in Europe who seem to think they can get payment for spamming on behalf of USA web sites! However, in late October, Europe will require its member states to enact legislation to control unsolicited communication of any type. Hopefully the respective gov'ts will do something effective rather than try and sidestep the issue (just after pigs master basic aerobatics :-). Agreed that a lot of open relays seem to exist in JP... and there are significant numbers in Europe as suggested. The time zone and language differences are going to be a big PITA in terms of getting the problems sorted quickly. In Japan, they seem to think <postmaster> is optional!!! The UK is getting its act together on spam... as spammers's targets for relays are driven out of the USA they are hitting further down the chain (machines on slower lines rather than close to the cores), targeting ISP's customers not the ISPs. I suspect that Europe will be the next spammers's paradise regardless of gov't support etc. Perhaps we should all hope that the year2000 bug will break all broken systems totally, leaving only the clueful to run the place properly. Paul ---- P Mansfield, Senior SysAdmin PSINet, +44-1223-577577x2611/577611 fax:577600 :r~/humour/signature :wq