Re: Re: Blocking traffic by Country to reduce spam

[chmod1777 () mydotcom com]

*Very naive if you think blocking by a particular country is going to work.

The United States is almost always in the top two spots. You'd have to
be insane to block an entire country.*


Insane? I'm not just blocking spam, though blocking the netblocks of a country does work for that. I agree that if your 
only motive is to stop spam, then an rbl would be a better solution, and I gave an example of why. However, spam was 
not my only motive (as I mentioned).

Blocking rogue countries (rogue as in makes no effort to stop illegal activity) is HIGHLY effective at stopping 
nefarious traffic. My reasoning was not just spam, but also bf attempts on my server. An RBL would do nothing for that. 
 There is absolutely no reason to ALLOW traffic from these countries, so why would I want to take a chance? I do no 
business with anyone in those countries, I'm not equipped to do business with anyone in those countries, and I choose 
not to do business with anyone in those countries. Why should I just blindly allow it????  

I assure you I'm not insane, and it is highly effective as a means to block worthless traffic. Does it stop all bad 
guys from sending me spam, or making attempts at my server? Absolutely not. In my initial post, you'd have read where I 
said it stopped "the majority" of it. I'm not naive enough to think that all of it could ever be stopped. But I can 
certainly block a majority of it. And I have, and it works. 

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