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Spam Capital of the World

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-of-the-U.S. dept.

ermita2 writes "The South Florida Sun-Sentinel published this weekend a story about how South Florida is home to more spammers than any other place in the world according to Spamhaus. The reason for that seems to be Florida's long history and friendliness with dirty business from real estate speculation to the penny stock scammers. Among the interesting tidbits is anecdotal evidence that the amount of spam worldwide fell for a while after last year's hurricanes in Florida."

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  1. Lower 48 by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Has anyone else noticed that Florida is the worst place in the United States? Is Texas jealous?

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  2. Re:God Hates Spammers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's got nothing to do with [Gg]od.
    Just because you're a stupid atheist, doesn't mean everyone should be.

  3. Re:Is it too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    wasn't it last week that we declared the spam capitol of thw world was china or was it that one eastern european country? or was that the week before? yes spam is annoying but it does not mean that we all have the right to hang every spammer, they are providing a service that is useful to many, advertising. face it, if there was not advertising then how would you know about many product. list for me every thing you bought from a company that advertised, would you not have even known about that product or company if they did not advertise.