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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."
China is still happy to host spammers websites - yes .cn got cleaned up after being big chinese cash cow, but .ru is damm popular with chinese 'hosting' firms.
Spam is a two sided operation - the mail, and the site.
It also helps if you have the sort of government where you can just summarily execute anyone suspected of spamming.
Everybody can get on board with that, right?
And that article was a dupe from the 2001 when everyone started blocking mail from Korea because it was mostly spam. The US was the origin of the first spam, and has constantly been the biggest producer of spam since then, no matter what people's perceptions are. Currently Turkey seems to be on the up, but you can bet that it is still well behind the US.
The US is also the origin of the first non-spam email, and has constantly been the biggest producer of non-spam emails. Simple fact of the matter is, the US has the most computers, and the most infected computers.
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According to the (slightly out-of-date) article, the whole of Europe sends less spam than the US. I'm quite sure there are more computers in Europe than in the US, as the population is more than 60% larger (only counting EU. The spam level in the article is likely about the whole continent, which has about 130% the population of the US), and the developement level is similar.