[geeks] .hk, .cn, .info considered harmful

[Phil Stracchino]

Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> I've been gradually arriving at the viewpoint that systemic blocking
> of what I'll call (for lack of a better term) "bad actors" is necessary.
> For most purposes, spammers and phishers and spyware authors and botnet
> operators and so on *are the same people*, so once they're identified,
> there's no point in allowing any further traffic to or from them -- thus
> I'm shifting more and more measures from application protocol servers
> to the firewall.

I concur.  Hence today's firewall changes.



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