[sudo-discuss] Yandex: was Re: If Sudoroom ppl serious re getting an FCC radio license, should start wkly mtgs immediately.

[GtwoG PublicOhOne]

The probability of anyone in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, or Kazakhstan,
becoming an SR member, asymptotically approaches zero.  The probability
of spams, scams, spyware, malware, etc. coming from those locations, is
high.  The ratio of spam to real correspondence from yandex.com
addresses is presently 1.0 : 0.

That's a lousy risk/benefit ratio.  So IMHO ban the hell out of
yandex.com and any other domain that shows itself to be a significant
source of spam etc.

"Open" as in "accepting" does not equal "open" as in "unprotected."  We
are not under any obligation to have no collective immune system. 
Species without immune defenses don't even last long enough to become
footnotes in archaeology. 

-G


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On 13-10-30-Wed 5:10 PM, Steve Berl wrote:
> You might not want to ban everyone from yandex.com
> <http://yandex.com>. It is a huge ISP with many millions of customers
> from all over Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. It would be
> equivalent to banning everyone from yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com> or
> similar. 
>
> I'd suggest a bit more specific filtering.
>
> -steve
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Yardena Cohen <yardenack at gmail.com
> <mailto:yardenack at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com
>     <mailto:steveberl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > The spam From: field says "john re <giovanni-re at yandex.com
>     <mailto:giovanni-re at yandex.com>>"
>     > The real emails seem to come from "giovanni_re"
>     <john_re at fastmail.us <mailto:john_re at fastmail.us>>
>
>     The spam emails all came from:
>
>        giovanni-re at yandex.com <mailto:giovanni-re at yandex.com>
>        carefullychipped at yandex.com <mailto:carefullychipped at yandex.com>
>
>     Neither of these had posted to the list before, and both were banned.
>     A pattern also became clear after yet another new subscriber showed
>     up, named:
>
>        yardena.cohen at yandex.com <mailto:yardena.cohen at yandex.com>
>
>     Creepy! At that point I just decided to ban everything from
>     yandex.com <http://yandex.com>, which seems to have stopped the
>     problem. There were no
>     other subscribers from that domain.
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> -- 
> -steve
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