Spam's U.S. Roots

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Posted by michael on Friday August 13, 2004 @02:22AM from the part-of-the-problem-not-part-of-the-solution dept.

ahab_2001 writes "Notwithstanding how tired my finger is getting from deleting all of those unsolicited messages from China and Korea, Information Week reports that a study of filtered messages by the spam-blocking firm CipherTrust revealed that some 86% of spam originates in the U.S. Apparently, a very limited set of IPs with high-bandwidth connections is dishing out the bulk of the spam, according to this study."

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Yeah! We're #1! We're #1! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:23 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh wait, that's not a good thing in this case.
1. Re:Yeah! We're #1! We're #1! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:26 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Is this the time to call for a Usenet Death Penalty against the USA? (Shouldn't be such an unfamiliar concept to you - you DO have the death penalty already...)
  
  That would at least reduce the spam in the rest of the world by 86%.
2. Re:Yeah! We're #1! We're #1! by xanadu-xtroot.com · 2004-08-13 02:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Is this the time to call for a Usenet Death Penalty against the USA?
  
  But don't we need UDP for somethings?
  
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3. Re:Yeah! We're #1! We're #1! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:50 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  you can email him at:
  Crazieeman@gmail.com
4. Re:Yeah! We're #1! We're #1! by thephotoman · 2004-08-13 03:07 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I've advocated this before. In print, even.
  
  Unfortunately, nobody takes the idea of capital punishment for spammers seriously. But given this information, it should be possible to track these guys down and execute them like the scum they are.
  
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Re:Crush by wwest4 · 2004-08-13 02:27 · Score: 5, Funny

> Crush those sites. Turn them off. Then repeat the study.

...this will be the sixth time we have destroyed them, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Come on... by xenostar · 2004-08-13 02:29 · Score: 2, Funny

I thought the spam problem has been resolved
That's BRILLIANT! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:30 · Score: 5, Funny

We should start sending out "fake" spam with encoded music/movies in it. RIAA and MPAA would buy some new laws to stop spam.
Ok by JawFunk · 2004-08-13 02:33 · Score: 1, Funny

"The percentage of spamming IP addresses within the U.S. is in line with other surveys, but in the actual number of messages, the U.S. is responsible for the vast bulk of spam."
Yes, well, excess is a part of the American lifestyle.

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Screw that... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Great, give me a list and I'll block them on my mail server. ...give us the list and let's block the whole freakin' netblocks at the router.

You are judged by the company you keep!
Re:What are those? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:36 · Score: 1, Funny

just try blocking 55.64.157.0/24. That's from where I get around 76% of the spam on my company's mail server.
Re:Nice Advertisement.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:38 · Score: 0, Funny

An article that is a stealth advertisement... ON SLASHDOT?!?!? NEVAR!!11
Re:Me... Trolling? by mobby_6kl · 2004-08-13 02:38 · Score: 5, Funny

>Funny. My finger's not tired

Funny, my finger isn't tired either, but my hand is.

Oh...maybe I should stop visiting all those sites mentioned in the emails I get.
Oh goody! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-13 02:48 · Score: 1, Funny

Something else the world can blame on Americans. So now we are all fat, lazy, arrogant, war wongering spammers!

F'eh
In other news by gorbachev · 2004-08-13 02:55 · Score: 4, Funny

A study by the National Weather Service just found out sky is blue, most of the time.

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How To End Spam by bratgrrl · 2004-08-13 03:15 · Score: 3, Funny

Spam won't stop until SpamAssassin becomes SpammerAssassin.

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Re:Crush by RussDavisDotCom · 2004-08-13 05:04 · Score: 2, Funny

not as much as you would think... just distributed over several machines. 150k x 10 windows and I'm sucking 1.5MB off of their bandwith a second. Take that, put it on 30 or so machines... then you're cooking with gas.

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Re:Crush by Jesus_666 · 2004-08-13 05:09 · Score: 3, Funny

It doesn't work under Firefox, either. I completely forgot to mention that. If it weren't for that site I'd never use IE at all...

Now you can use IE to hurt spammers... Oh, the irony!

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