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US No Longer Leading the World In Spam
darthcamaro writes "America is no longer the spam king. According to Cisco, US-originated spam dropped by over two trillion messages — American-based IP addresses sent about 6.2 trillion spam messages. The new world leader is Brazil at 7.7 trillion messages. 'I'm not completely surprised to see US falling to number two in the spam stats, but I didn't expect it to happen yet,' said Cisco Fellow Patrick Peterson. 'I was really gratified to see the actual spam volume decrease, not just ranking, but we [also] decreased the amount of spam that is pouring out of the United States.'" The drop in US spam might have had something to do with the temporary shutdown of the McColo spam ISP.
According to Hormel
More than 122 million cans of the SPAM® family of products are sold worldwide each year, 90 million in the U.S. alone.
Sounds to me like the US is still the leader!
I thought it was bad enough when the U. S. was falling behind the rest of the world in health care and science education. Now we've fallen behind in spam generation as well?!?! Come on people! This is a wake-up call if ever I heard one!
We're #2! We're #2! We're #2!
In so many ways.
I had no idea Brazil used Cyrillic character set.
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I guess everyone in the US has their preferred dealers for Viagra and Swiss watches now. The market is too saturated!
Valkyrie is about to die! Wizard needs food -- badly!
This could serve as an inspiration to some movie script writer-
In a world where.....One man set out to generate enough spam to make his country proud. This is the story of courage, and determination...
You get the gist?
Face your daemons!
The new world leader is Brazil at 7.7 trillion messages.
From now on, 7.7 trillion will be known as one Brazilian.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
...slashdot's way of telling me to stop posting and start reading.
It's views like that that have ruined slashdot. The day that I am discouraged from participating in off-topic flamewars and trolling with copypasta, all the while wielding my stash of mod points like a righteous crowbar of indignation, is the day I lose hope in all that is right in the world!!
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
this is unheard of, this cant be, tell me it's not true, we have to be number one in EVERYTHING !! Who's fault is this? who is slipping up and falling behind? could this be Obama's fault? How can we turn it around? perhaps a quick stimulus bill to get spammers to work harder? How about a boycott? YA THAT'S IT, boycott foreign spam !!!! support US spam only, if we all pitch in the US can once again be number one !!!
Don't worry, in the bedroom America will always come first.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.