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Spam's U.S. Roots
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."
Oh wait, that's not a good thing in this case.
> 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.
We should start sending out "fake" spam with encoded music/movies in it. RIAA and MPAA would buy some new laws to stop spam.
>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.
A study by the National Weather Service just found out sky is blue, most of the time.
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Spam won't stop until SpamAssassin becomes SpammerAssassin.
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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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