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From: Nick Drage <nickd@metastasis.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Blocking Netranges Based on IP-to-Country CSV
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:01:11 +0100
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:09:53PM +0300, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:

<snip>

> > Depends how you use the information.  And to be honest considering the
> > reputation of some sources of traffic, such as Korea and South America,
> > which might be unlikely to have legitimate connections to your site, it
> > would be handy to block them all.
> 
> I don't like this reason at all, but let me agree with you temporarily.
> What if a client with good reputation "ie, from your country :-)" is
> spending his vacation in South America, and wanted to check something
> in your website ??

Then don't reject packets according to country :)

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