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Spam from Taiwan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spam-who-loved-me dept.

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.

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  1. Taiwan China ... by layer3switch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So Taiwan isn't part of China now? OK, I'm confused.

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  2. Why not block the whole country? by UncleMantis · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If most of the spam is coming from this Taiwan then why not add the whole block to a spam black list? I for one never go to any sites that are being served from Taiwan and I don't have any friends their either so if one could OPT-In for country sized spam filtration I am one for the idea. Maybe a combonation of keywords and Geo2IP or something. At least we now know where all the junk is coming from!

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    Uncle Mantis