I’m quite familiar with IP blocks. I mistyped after a long period of being talked at. My apologies.
Your initial post made it sound like filtering out these comments is a simple task that the FCC actively was choosing not to do:
People don’t usually like being told they’re wrong, so I tried asking you a few questions that might lead you to arrive at a different conclusion.
I pointed out many people use VPNs or Tor. Someone familiar with information technology would have intuited that I was implying that a large number of posts coming from one IP address in a foreign country couldn’t safely be attributed to spam. It was a failure of communication on my part not to make that explicit, judging by your reply
You replied [quote=“gracchus, post:14, topic:101340”]
1000s of nearly identical comments from IP blocks in Vietnam on an FCC comment server would raise the eyebrows of most sysops.
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Your reply also didn’t seem to fully grasp that there are serious legal issues associate with blocking comments, so I expressly stated that.
Which then led us circling back to this most recent post, where you claim… your post was talking about disregarding comments based on geographic origin…
I won’t copy and paste my original comment below, lest we get stuck in an infinite loop ![]()