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China Getting 'Serious' About Spam?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the will-believe-it-when-don't-see-it dept.

Ritz_Just_Ritz writes "Apparently, the Chinese MII (Ministry of Information) is going to crack down on Spam from within China. This will include training for 1000 mail administrators and recruitment of 20,000 'anti-spam volunteers.'"

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  1. Wow, short aricle for sure by fullphaser · · Score: 4, Informative

    no need to click the link kids that it pretty much. anyway thank god... now about korea?

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  2. Well, they had better get cracking by winkydink · · Score: 4, Informative

    Current estimates by Trend Micro show China responsible for over 14 billion spams per day.

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  3. China has a long way to go by MikeRT · · Score: 2, Informative

    Say what you will about the United States, but at least you can't say that we spend extreme percentages on our military while we have major internal problems. China wouldn't have anywhere near the problems it does today with crime and pollution if it didn't devote so many resources to its military. I get tired of the excuses for their priorities "oh they're afraid of the United States!" Bullshit. We can't even get riled up over Afghanistan, a country that aided and abetted the 9-11 terrorists and protected their ring leader. China would have to do something monstrous like conquer one of the "asian tigers" or Japan to get enough passion to actually fight them. You know what this just proves once again? Big government doesn't give a fuck about the common person unless they're revolting or about to. China's spam problems are only the tip of the iceberg. How about stopping all of those hack attacks against government and industry first? Priorities, priorities.

  4. Re:Sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I would think *.cn might be a bit more effective at blocking Chinese spam.

  5. Please USA, get 'Serious' about Spam too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    See the stats here.

  6. You can get your answer dynamically, any time by Ilgaz · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hi,

    Click here: http://www.senderbase.org/

    You will notice "top senders by domain". There are some telecoms "shouldn't be" there. They are the spam infested ISPs who doesn't have a clue about managing their services. Sadly it includes my backbone too.

    I seriously suspect China spam is sort of foreign policy. As a spamcop (free,paid)/) user for years I have right to suspect so. Also if ISPs, large ISPs end this "politically correct" crap and enable country wide user selectable blocking lists you will see how they buy those Ironport, eSafe etc. devices by paying 1% of their revenue.

    What about commercial communications? Well you will tell your business partner to find a better managed ISP.