Re: [OT] Re: .br blacklisted ?

Dan Hollis (goemon@anime.net)
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:15:54 -0800 (PST)


On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 99% of mine is from China (either *.cn or 163.com or some other
> numbering .com or .net. The .org is frowned upon in China - the TLD of
> protestors and disidents). Half of what's left comes from either .kr
> or .br. I'm fully in favor of an Internet Death Penalty against those
> TLD's and associated domains till they clean up their acts.

Don't forget .tw and .hk, a favorite of spammers. They seem to have
abandoned .jp and moved on.

There's also the sudden hurricane of spam in the past few months from .ar
for inexplicable reasons. So that gets blocked too. Anyone know why the
sudden burst of .ar spam? Some country-wide government endorsed spamming
program?

-Dan

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