RE: Discard Redux

David Cary Hart wrote ...
>
> ... That said, I'm not entirely sure about
> the difference in bandwidth and cycles for discard in contrast to
> reject.

DISCARD takes more bandwidth, because you have to accept the whole =
message
before you can throw it away.

How much less bandwidth REJECT takes depends on when in the process you
reject (by default, it's after RCPT TO:, I think) and, of course, how =
big
the message body is.

> I was using that as an example. IMO there are very few Korean and
> Chinese spammers.

Nah. There are tons of Korean spammers, but they are mostly spamming =
other
Koreans. The Chinese spammers are fewer in number but less selective. =
I
have one twenty-year-old email address on a completely unfiltered =
system; it
gets nothing but spam (about 100 a day); about one quarter of it is in
either Chinese or Korean.

> I think that there is a mostly non-Asian spam
> community using Korean and Chinese "bullet proof" hosting.

Most of the spam I bother to examine comes _from_ either trojaned PCs
(worldwide) or clueless networks that don't care. Most of it =
_advertises_
websites in China. Still, a lot comes from undisguised US sources and
advertises US websites.=20

-Shel