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U.S. is World Leader in Spam

Posted by michael on from the everyone's-good-at-something dept.

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."

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  1. Re:So much for the AXIS OF EVIL... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Damn you... I was going to say exactly the same thing!

  2. Can-Spam Act by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And legalising it is really going to help. 'Nuff said.

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  3. USA! USA! by pestie · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Woo-hoo! At least we're the world leader in something. I was gettin' pretty sick of reading about all those foreigners who were kicking our collective ass in math and science.

  4. Re:So... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, ask yourself the following; Do you want more users to suffer because of a petty dispute?

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  5. Re:So much for the AXIS OF EVIL... by K3lvin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yup.

    Europe Net Users Now Outnumber US/Canada