China and its Relation With Spam

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.""

Comments

I once saw.

[northcat]

Someone on /. once made comment that these spam actually oroginate from US but ISPs make them "look like the spam is coming from another country" and went on to give some 'ununderstandable' explanation. I asked for an explanation as to what he means exactly and how its done but got no answer. (I can't seem to find the link to that comment)

Spam is big in the Phillipines... as am I.

[Baron von Blapp]

In Soviet China, Government spams YOU!

Re:Spam is big in the Phillipines... as am I.

[Baron von Blapp]

Im sorry to anyone whom I offended with my rampant use of meme's. It was just so fitting in my opinion, mod me down if you want... but you atleast have to admit you got some sort of pleasure from it.

Even the pleasure of modding me down counts as pleasure from it :P