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U.S. is World Leader in Spam
adept256 writes "Sophos outs 'dirty dozen' spam producing countries. And the USA is in the lead by a country mile. 'The United States is far and away the worst offender, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the world's spam. Even though European countries are responsible for less spam, they are still generating millions of junk emails a day,' said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos."
I'd push it up a notch
spelling?
Trust me people, I'm willing to fight to get my country back if need be.
Sure you are. (head pat)
I think I speak for the nation when I say I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
--- Ban humanity.
for perpetuating this myth that blocking IPs is an intelligent way of dealing with spam.
I block domains. I have a list of hundreds of domain names that were used in spams. I now filter out any e-mail that contains any of those domains. I now get spam at a trickle and only feel compelled to update the list of blocked domains every few days. A process which is mostly automated.
You block one IP you completely miss the target. You block one domain and you've 100% nailed dozens or hundreds of spammers who are hawking crap using that domain.
Most domains when used with a spam have a junk subdomain in this vain hope that filters will be stupid enough to include it in the rule. And not surprisingly, most filters are so stupid because they're fully automated. Or they have "?affid=" in some form. That gets removed as well. So all I have left is the main domain name and the dot whatever. By leaving the dot whatever you can include random letter domains that otherwise may happen to fit a base-64 pattern for a legitimate attachment. base-64 doesn't include a period.
And since these are spam domains, there's exactly 0% collateral damage.
Where with blocking IPs there's close to 100% collateral damage since IPs are shared and good luck finding an IP that a spammer actually owns that nobody else will ever use.
Even if you think you're clever and block the IP of the domain thinking many domains go to the same IP, it's a very trivial thing to point the domain to a new IP. Which results in the same problem SPEWs has. They're so retarded and ineffectual they have to block entire ranges of IPs to claim any amount of effectivness.
It's no wonder they remain anonymous. They'd have their brains bashed in with a clue stick by thousands of angry legitimate businesses and mail server owners.
There's nothing wrong with the SMTP protocol. Blocking domains doens't require knowing who the message came from. It's irrelavent. Nearly all spams have links. And the HTML standards don't allow for obfuscated URLs. Those spams that don't have links are very few and managable with the delete button.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
...and with no European immigrants there'd be no USA. What was your point?
That was classic intercourse!
Are you suggesting that the landmass that Europeans live on was somehow created by homo habilis?
I'm not aware of any evidence to back up such an extraordinary idea, please share yours!
That was classic intercourse!
And all he has to do with the brain dead SPEWS method is get a new IP which is free.
Unless his only choice is to get an IP address on a SPEWS-listed ISP because he's a ROKSO spammer and can't get an account elsewhere, in which case he goes from one SPEWS-listed IP address to another.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!