Re: spam from chinanet

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:22:54PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
>
> > also sprach Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au> [2004.09.15.1220 +0200]:
> >
> > > Why?  If their ISP mail relays are run as badly as some of the
> > > ones here in WA seem to be, you will be making people choose
> > > between having their mail delayed for hours (or even days) at
> > > times due to overloaded ISP mail servers[1]; or being blocked from
> > > mailing debian.org.
> >
> > So why do you subscribe to the services of an incompetent ISP?
>
>
> Because sometimes you don't have a choice.
>
> * The incompetent ISP could be the only affordable option.
> * Your incompetent boss may have made a horrible decision.
> * The incompetent ISP could be a monopoly, *forcing* you to use them.
>
> Blocking people because of their ISP is silly.

But if the benefice/cost is big I find really no problems.
If there is a loooooots of spam from one ISP and
no or few potential users, I don't see problems.
If they need to email us, they can still use gmx, yahoo, gmail,...
and then in a secundary moment we remove the block

ciao
	cate