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Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the inbox-mine-sweeper dept.

Eggplant62 writes "ChinaTechNews.com is reporting that Steve Linford's Spamhaus.org will open operations with the help of Chinese government officials and ISP's in order to remove spammers operating servers on China's portion of the Internet. For years, China's unwitting ignorance of the spam issues they have with the rest of the world has been a major stumbling block in the fight to control spammers who operate from the netblocks of foreign nations. Seeing China take steps to help the world curb the scourge of junk email has me cheering all the way. Go Steve!"

4 of 222 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why is this a Chinese issue by blowdart · · Score: 5, Informative
    A lot of the spamvertised web sites (including Richter's) are hosted on Chinese ISPs (71% according to a survey from Commtouch. (The same survey shows that 60.5% of spam is sent from US addresses)

    The ISPs are unresponsive to emails, some don't have abuse@ addresses and of course there's the language barrier. So, hopefully, a spamhaus setup in China will get the chinese ISPs to remove the spamvertised sites quickly.

    The effectiveness of this idea, of course, remains to be seen. I can see the temptation of taking hard currency when you're happily ignoring complaints about the "Make big penis" web sites hosted in your IP space.

    Now if only Russia would do something about the paypal, ebay and bank phishing spammers they host, then I might consider lifting some country blocks.

  2. here ya go by Brightest+Light · · Score: 4, Informative

    have at it

  3. Re:Why not? by grainofsand · · Score: 4, Informative

    The policy of sending the family a bill for the execution bullet was ended in the late 80s.

    However, the death sentence can be imposed in cases of "economic crime" that involve amounts greater than RMB 100,000 (about US$12,000).

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    A dream is good. A plan is better.
  4. China? US! by hherb · · Score: 4, Informative

    I welcome any effort to reduce Spam anywhere.
    However, I just went through the hassle of analyzing what has been caught inmy spam trap today:
    243 spam messages total
    of which
    4 (four!) apparently came from China.
    7 came from Russia,
    1 came from Germany
    19 I haven't been able to work out yet
    the rest comes from ... USA. That's 212 out of 243, or almost a whopping 90%

    Guys, the problem is with the good old US, at least for the spam I receive. The legislation there is not biting at all.

    Anybody got a link regarding larger and long term spam statistics re country of origin?