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If I ran my own, personal email server, I could probably block the TLDs of every country in Asia, Africa, and South America and never actually block a single em
by nkrisc 4y ago
If I ran my own, personal email server, I could probably block the TLDs of every country in Asia, Africa, and South America and never actually block a single email. I don’t receive emails from those TLDs and I quite possibly never will. If I expected to, I wouldn’t block it. I don’t travel the world, making friends in every country I go to. That sounds nice, but that’s not my life.
The poster you’re replying to is talking about their filtering method for their own email. Presumably they know if they expect to ever receive an email from a given country.
- froggit 4y agoIs there a particular reason to go ahead and preemptively blacklist every country's TLD you doubt you'd ever receive an email from? Would it not be better like if spam isn't expected to be an issue you might as well leave it open, then if you do one day receive a spam from that TLD, block it then? Otherwise, let's hypothetically say you have a friend named "jacob peter" who really likes his initials (and doesn't understand the topic of this discussion), so he registers somewhere in Japan that lets him have dot-JP as his TLD. The only hypothetical way he knows to contact you is via your email server (let's also assume he doesn't do stuff like social media, phones, etc., so he can't find any other way and you have no way to contact him). If you have hypothetically preemptively blacklisted all of Asia's TLDs, then you'd never talk to him again for as long as you live, right?
- nkrisc 4y agoIf this entirely fictional friend only ever emailed me from his .jp email address and never contacted me any other way, I guess so, I would never talk to him again. Since he’s not real I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe he’s kind of a dick.