[SpamCop-List] Re: IP numbers of places OUTSIDE of USA

[TimeLord]

"Cherie" <notmyrealaddress at nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:d89vpu$kbj$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Sorry you read my post wrong..I was not associating outside of US with 
> BAD...I was trying to avoid a lengthy explanation to which I am now forced 
> to do
>
> ..this website is for an organization..and only those who belong or may be 
> thinking about joining are the only ones that would be interested in 
> visiting.. this particular organization ONLY has chapters in USA
>
> I would not block outsiders from the website..just the guestbook...the 
> guestbook is...after all ..for members only (sorta)..soooooOOOoOO
>
> ....blocking outside USA ips will not only put a large dent in blocking 
> out guestbook spam, but it will help to keep guestbook comments allowable 
> for members (or prospective members) only
>
> and just for the record..I do believe that a large portion of spam comes 
> from US citizens using foreign hosts to do their dirty work....my method 
> would get them too, huh?
>
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Cherie
>
>
>
> "Aviatrix" <79ytka802 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message 
> news:d89urm$jhl$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>>
>>
>> Cherie wrote:
>>
>>> I have a few guestbooks on some of my sites..there is no reason in the 
>>> world why anyone outside of the USA would have any interest in these 
>>> websites...I would like to ban all "outsiders" from posting to the 
>>> guestbook..I have had at least 25 spam messages on one guestbook today 
>>> only..I have banned the IP's and ALL of them are from outside of 
>>> USA....this is time consuming..does anyone have a list of IPs that are 
>>> of places outside of USA..that I can copy/paste into the ban box??
>>
>> I know this is off-topic, but for once I won't apologise.
>>
>> This is an international newsgroup read and contributed to by people all 
>> over the world. Has it occurred to you that a posting like this may be 
>> just a little bit offensive to those of us who don't live in the USA, 
>> especially those of us here in the UK, supposedly your "special friends"?
>>
>> You seem to be equating "outside the USA" with "bad", and you seem to 
>> think that only people outside the USA produce spam - when the truth is 
>> that the USA generates more spam than most other countries.
>>
>> And, talking in practical terms - are you sure that none of those that 
>> your web site is aimed at are ever going to travel outside the USA?
>
>

Guestbook spam - to take another tack altogether, I found a very successful 
approach (for me anyway) in blocking guestbook spamming was by just blocking 
the posting of strings contaning 'http', 'www' and '@' in the appropriate 
fields - blocked over a thousand without a failure :-). Though it depends if 
you want your guests to be able to post URL's or email addresses.

Kev