China and its Relation With Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 13, 2004 @06:27AM from the but-i-don't-like-spam dept.

smooth wombat writes "Asia Times has a nice article about why China is becoming the spam capital of the world. Steve Linford, of Spamhaus fame, is quoted several times in the article and offers some insight into how the Chinese ISPs operate. Steves quote at the end of the article pretty much sums up why China isn't doing anything to curb the hosting of spam website servers in the country: "They simply don't want to know - China Telecom doesn't care because they're government-owned and there is no pressure coming from the government. Meanwhile, our statistics on spam volumes and the number of spammers setting up in China are going up and up and up.""

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RBL by tacocat · 2004-12-13 06:30 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Isn't there some way we can identify the entire Chinese IP block and just shut them down? If they don't care, then they can just go back to being isolationists as they have been for the past 5,000 years. They didn't mind and neither did we. But this kind of behaviour sucks.

Honestly, I can't think of anything else that could possibly be done short of forwarding all chinese spam to the UN and seeing if they can actually do ANYTHING in the next decade or so.