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China Wants Out of Spam Blocks

Posted by timothy on from the you-can-bet-they-do dept.

SomeoneYouDontKnow writes: "Apparently, China is feeling the effects of the e-mail blocks Western ISPs are placing on Asian mail to prevent spam, as previously reported here. A group of Chinese legislators is calling for the blocks to be lifted because they're making it difficult for them to communicate via e-mail, and a signed article in The People's Daily is calling on China to ban spam. Maybe now some of the lazy admins of these spam-spewing mail servers will clean up their acts."

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  1. Maybe we should use that tactic more often... by darn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if I can convince the EU to block all mail from USA. That is where I get almost all of my spam from.

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  2. spam by trelaneopn · · Score: 3, Funny

    dear america,
    this legitimate e-mail is not spam, it is a message from china to the united states, that has been repeated 5 billion times, once for each citizen in our overpopulated ineptly run third world country.
    due to the fact that we're too poor to build nuclear missles, submarines aircraft carriers etc, we have instead come up with the following excellent products for you
    1. PORN! (hell EVERYONE LOVES PORN)
    2. herbal viagra, (ancient chinese formula)
    3. aluminum siding (houseing value-added feature)
    4. free vacations to hong kong (beautiful city, except when it rains... a lot)
    please enjoy these gifts and products courtousy of china.

    this message is not spam to be removed from this mailing list...

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  3. Let's not forget... by Murmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that as much as you might joke that spammers should be lined up and shot, that gets a lot less funny when you're dealing with the Chinese government.

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    1. Re:Let's not forget... by ThatComputerGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

      And mass mail us all so we know about it!

      Oh, wait..

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    2. Re:Let's not forget... by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
      > as much as you might joke that spammers should be lined up and shot, that gets a lot less funny when you're dealing with the Chinese government.

      I was gonna suggest that if they can't recoup the costs of the bullets through selling live streaming video, they could harvest the organs and sell 'em for transplant.

      But spammers have no brains, heart, or balls, so those organs are off the list.

      Going down the list of organs that I've seen working on spammer bodies, we're down to one possible use. Colostomy patients who need asshole transplants. And it'd still be an insult to the transplant recipient's own shit.

      Oh well, it was a good idea while it lasted. Back to the streaming video idea.

  4. This has potential. by MAXOMENOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hm. "Send spam, get shot in the back of the neck." I like the sound of this.

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  5. alternative solution... by smash · · Score: 3, Funny
    They want their own network that they can control, censor, and make inaccessible from the outside?

    /me hands china a few subnets... 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/20, and 10.0.0.0/8 :P

    smash

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