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China and its Relation With Spam

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. RBL by tacocat · · 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.

    1. Re:RBL by glesga_kiss · · Score: -1, Flamebait
      Isn't there some way we can identify the entire Chinese IP block and just shut them down?

      Funny, most of my spam comes from THE U S of A.

      Should WE just block YOUR subnets? No. Don't so fucking stupid.

      Yay, another thread involving China full of racist American scum*. Jeez, get with the program guys, it's the Arabs you are supposed to be hating, commies are just sooo 60's & 70's. How are your leaders supposed to make you get behind their wars if you are hating the wrong enemy. It's Eurasia fools, not Eastasia!!!

      (* yes, I am aware of the irony in saying that a whole nation of people is racist)

  2. The solution is simple... by fmaxwell · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If we want to put an end to the spam from China, stop routing their data. Knock them off of the Internet and their citizens will demand that the problem be addressed. This is easy: Make it illegal for U.S. companies to move Internet traffic from China. A traceroute to www.chinanet.cn.net shows that the data is being moved through Sprintlink. Shut those pipes down and the problem will be handled. Let China go back to telephones and faxes for their communications with the U.S. and they will do something about the spam problem.

  3. Re:The source? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    0.001% is 1 in a thousand? Hmmm... I guess you're American!