There has been a worring increase in UK spam in the last 3 years, and
the
situation seems to be getting worse at an accelerating rate, no doubt
partly due to the UK's interpertation of the EU Privacy and Electronic
Communications directive.
Much is directed at role accounts (sales@ and info@ co.uk domains)
but harvested addresses are also being targeted.
As you can see from the data below domain based blacklists are proving
somewhat effective at blocking this spam, with
surbl.org and
uribl.com
both
necessary and complimentary. The most surprising aspect to me was how
few
IP addresses used by UK spammers were listed by DNSBLs.
uceprotect.net
had the most sources listed but even so that was a minority of the
active
spammers.
