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China Cleans Up Spam Problem

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'm-feeling-much-better dept.

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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  1. I hope so, because it shouldn't have been hard. by intellitech · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not like they didn't have the existing hardware and infrastructure for a huge firewall or something.

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  2. Re:Maybe by sjwest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Dubious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know where they are getting their sources but their listed references say nothing about chinas ranking. See
    http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso
    China is still number 2.

  4. Coincidence... by MadKeithV · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it a coincidence that google "loses" 150.000 GMail accounts, and suddenly China cleans up it's spam problem?

  5. Our statistics by dskoll · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Our stats show China at #8. The top 10 for us are:

    • United States at about 33%
    • Russia at about 9.5%
    • India at about 8.8%(Maybe there is something to the outsourcing joke?
    • Canada at 6%
    • Ukraine at 4.4%
    • Romania at 2.4%
    • Brazil at 2.4%
    • China at 1.3%
    • Vietnam at 1.3%
    • Poland at 1.3%

      The last three are all 1.3% because of rounding, but the order really is China - Vietnam - Poland.