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Spam's U.S. Roots

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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Re:Yeah! We're #1! We're #1! by yiantsbro · 2004-08-13 05:00 · Score: -1, Redundant

"You just need hard, decisive and quickly executed justice."

As long as that selection includes the anal rape option--preferably by some Viagra pumped / endowment enhanced convict.