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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. 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.

  2. 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?