A Day with an ISP Spam Investigator

scumbucket writes "Network World Fusion has an interesting article about an abuse investigator for ISP Earthlink and his job of tracking down spammers. It's nice to see that major ISP's are making an effort to shut spammers down and kick them off of their networks."

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Re:How to solve the Spam problem

[jwcorder]

I assume you are also going to say that the fact that McDonald's is in other countries is because of us fat, lazy Americans eating Big Macs.

Spam is not a country problem. It is a global problem. Just like viruses or worms, of which I would say that 50% of their creators are OUTSIDE of the US, but you don't hear anyone harping on how the only way to cure those problems are to make tougher laws in the EU.

The most probable reason for most of the Spam coming out of the US is that 1)PCs are dirt cheap here. 2)Network connections are readily available all over the place. 3)This is the land of opportunity and get rich quick schemes.

Blend these together and you get people who want to make fast money, who own lots of computers or space on computers, and who have tons of access to fast internet connections = Spamming opportunities.

Spam is not only an American problem just like the Ozone, deforestation, Global warming, and the AIDS epidemic aren't just our problems........but somehow everyone is first in line to expect us to fix it.