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At 09:38 AM 7/1/2008, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:44 AM,
Tony Wicks
<<a href="mailto:tonyw@tonywicks.com">tonyw@tonywicks.com</a>>
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<dd>I would like to add something, as a South African citizen. South
Africa, is NOT part of Africa for that matter, it's a republic on it's
own. It's almost like saying "Let's ban America, cause someone in
Mexico spammed me". South Africa, which is on the 196/8 range does a
LOT of business overseas in many countries, and I do want to warn that
you could loose a lot of good business due to this practice.<br><br>
<dd>Most of the fraud you experience could come from Nigeria, or one of
the other central & western Africa countries. To ban a whole
continent because of problems some countries cause could be
problematic.<br><br>
<dd>For that matter is China a different country from Russia, from
Switzerland, even though they share the same land mass<br><br>
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<dd>I need to put my 2c in here. I'm from New Zealand, we are a first
world democratic country (the first in the worlds to give the vote to ALL
adults I may mention). I have had the misfortune many of times of being
unable to transact business because people from the US in their ignorance
think, that New Zealand, isn't that part of Australia, which is right
next to Asia, can't do business with those Asians, they will rip me off.
Now sometimes people from the US have asked me why people in the other
parts of the world get a bit annoyed at the "the only country that
is free and true if the good old US of A" attitude, and well here
you go as an example. Lets ban all of Africa because someone from Nigeria
is a scammer. Africa is a pretty big place, and you know what, I've met
many South Africans that are real nice (even employed a few). I've always
been someone who defends America when people run it down, but it is a two
way street, don't treat a whole country as criminals because you don't
know the difference between one side of a continent from another, its
kind of insulting you know. And some day you might well need the rest of
us, you never know.<br><br>
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If a business only wants to do transaction with people in their own
country, what is wrong with that? There is no international law
that says they have to provide services or products to you because you
live in a different country. Sometimes the lost revenue by not
doing business outside your own country is better than having to deal
with the possibility of fraud. Sometimes it is more of a hassle to
deal with shipping, service and/or support issues with people from a
different country and it's just not worth it.<br><br>
-- <br>
-matt </blockquote><br><br>
Hello All,<br><br>
I've seen a lot of very good and valid comments come out of this
discussion!<br><br>
I had a mail server that, initially, had no need for foreign (Outside US)
communication. Then exceptions started highly complicating the
situation.<br><br>
I used this database lookup to compile a list, by country, of those I
wanted to block based upon my mail server's history with communications
with them and on the histories of my users/customers.<br><br>
<a href="http://ip.ludost.net/" eudora="autourl">http://ip.ludost.net/</a>
<br><br>
Very useful tool!<br><br>
Cheers,<br>
Glenn Parsons</body>
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