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The US Continues Its Reign As King of Spam
An anonymous reader writes "The United States continues its reign as the king of spam, relaying more than 13% of global spam, accounting for hundreds of millions of junk messages every day, according to a report by Sophos. However, most dramatically, China – often blamed for cybercrime by other countries – has disappeared from the 'dirty dozen,' coming in at 15th place with responsibility for relaying just 1.9% of the world's spam."
On a domain I've had since the 80's I get around 500-1000 spam messages a day. Google's (postini) spam filter catchs about 95% of them. 25-50 spam messages a day is still too many, and gods help me if I have to go in search of a message that got filtered unintentionally.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Hi, Terry. Nobody runs open relays any more. The spam comes from zombie windows boxes. Spam wasn't invented when AOL connected to USENET, it was popularized when Cantor and Siegel unleashed the green card spam. For an old-timer, you're remarkably poorly informed.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!