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Spam from Taiwan
TristanGrimaux writes "According to a recent study done by CipherTrust, two thirds of the world's spam is sent by Taiwan servers. The US follows with 24% and in a distant third is China with only 3% of the servers who actually sends the spam." The article cites easy access to broadband and lack of crackdown on offenders as the main contributing factors.
Instead of figuring out where most of the spam comes from, they should figure out which geographic location churns out the most humorous spam. It could be a world wide competition.
Taiwan makes more than 66% of the notebooks on which we read that spam, so they're actually overperforming on the content:reader ratio. I wish they'd get more into eBooks.
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make install -not war
Impossible! Go USA! Go USA! We can win the spam race!
Philosophy.
Prince Desmond Okotiebor Etete himself MUST account for at least 10% of all spam...
Somedays I almost wish that some of this Taiwanese spam showed up in a character set I could read so at least I could have a good laugh at it, or at least learn how they are trying to extract money from illicit private bank accounts!
"Dear Sir or Madam,
This email may to you as a surprise, but I am Mr. Chen Liao, son of former Taiwanese president Lin Liao, who was murdered by ninjas, and I need your help recovering $25 million Taiwanese Dollars..."
>does consider Taiwan a rouge province
So Taiwan is actually Red China?
(I apologize. I transpose keys too. But that one was just irresistible.)
Spam, Made In Taiwan ?
Why doesn't that supprise me ?
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Ok, so how come all the spam blockers don't just block the entire Taiwanese IP range?
:)
Anyone care to disclose the ranges?
It's true! My fiance is from Taiwan, and she's always telling me that I need to 1NCREA5E MY P3RF0R|\/|ANCE 1N BEDD!!!!!