China Cleans Up Spam Problem

angry tapir writes "It's been a few years coming, but it looks like China may finally be getting a handle on its spam problem. Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world's top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Systems' IronPort group ranks it at number 18 in terms of spam-producing countries. That's a big drop from two years ago, when it consistently ranked in the top five."

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email?

[vlm]

People still use email? Or are they talking about usenet spam, which unfortunately still blasts out? Hold on while I check my gopher server.

From talking to "non techies" email is pretty near dead outside the corporate world. Person to person text is now conducted exclusively via SMS or facebook wall postings. Personal to business transactions (site registrations, etc) are done with gmail and email is otherwise not used anymore.

Re:I hope so, because it shouldn't have been hard.

[Dunbal]

It also helps if you have the sort of government where you can just summarily execute anyone

Where would this be, pray? Because you are certainly not talking about China. Of course there is the possibility that you don't know what "summary execution" actually means, but my money is on the bet that you're just talking out of your arse.