Spamhaus Opening New Branch in China 222
Eggplant62 writes "ChinaTechNews.com is reporting that Steve Linford's Spamhaus.org will open operations with the help of Chinese government officials and ISP's in order to remove spammers operating servers on China's portion of the Internet. For years, China's unwitting ignorance of the spam issues they have with the rest of the world has been a major stumbling block in the fight to control spammers who operate from the netblocks of foreign nations. Seeing China take steps to help the world curb the scourge of junk email has me cheering all the way. Go Steve!"
Awsome (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm glad China realized just how much money they're going to save their economy which they have been viciously trying to kickstart lately.
Go China!
Remove country code blocks? (Score:5, Interesting)
Eh? (Score:4, Interesting)
Unwitting...ha ha...good one. Nothing happens in China, especially in the high tech sector, without the government knowing about it.
Re:"the scourge of junk email" (Score:5, Interesting)
Thanks to lovely spammers I can't leave my box for a month unattended. With 5 emails my mailbox would fill in half a year. With 100 spams daily this drops to weeks.
Do the math (Score:5, Interesting)
This amounts to:
8e8 / 86,400 seconds/day = 9259.25 days.
9259.25 days / 365.25 days/year = 25.35 Years
OK so maybe a minor spammer's life isn't _completely_ forfeit. The last time I did this (with numbers from another spammer) it worked out to 112 years.
_How_ much spam was Richter responsible for, again?
Not unless it is reduced by a fator of 1000 (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Nice to see they have their priorities in order (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Not unless it is reduced by a fator of 1000 (Score:5, Interesting)
I live in Hong Kong. For every legitimate email I get from the US I get hundreds of spams. All in English, selling drugs, mortgages, software, porn, cable decoders etc. The US creates the spam, and routes it through whatever servers it can find. And you know who thw spammers are (ROKSO [spamhaus.org]) and do nothing to even slow them down. But you block my emails becuae I live in the same country as the server the American spammers are using.
Re:Why not? (Score:3, Interesting)
Rarely, but yes.
One of the sometime purposes of 419 spam is to lure you into Nigeria or some other country where you may be kidnapped and held for ransom. There has been instances of people being murdered.
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