[SpamCop-List] Re: Spam from China

[John Anderson]

"Steven Maesslein" <nobody at nowhere.invalid> wrote in message 
news:slrndpiock.52e.nobody at 127.0.0.1...
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:48:33 -0800, Borgholio coughed into spamcop and
> left this in <dnb9bc$9tu$1 at news.spamcop.net>:
>
>> Terrible.  I have a blacklist that blocks the whole damn country, and 
>> I've
>> never seen even one legit email get caught...probably because there isn't
>> any such thing.  :)
>
> Ditto here. You can say the same for all of APNIC space except Australia
> and New Zealand. Most of it *isn't* in the local BL here - because it's
> in the firewall. There's no point allowing the connection to happen and
> an instance of sendmail to be started when I know full well it's going
> to be spam knocking on my door, so I don't even allow these areas access
> to my port 25. Saves CPU cycles and allows the machine to get on with
> more useful tasks.
>
Australia and NZ need to get on a different block, so that we in the west 
can ignore
one huge solid block of the internet !!