U.S. World's Foremost Spam Nation In 2004

der Kopf writes "As reported by ZDNet, '42 percent of all spam sent this year came from the United States,' which makes the U.S. the unthreatened king of the 2004 spam hill. Number two on the list is South Korea (with 13.43%), while China can be found in third place (with 8.44%). The U.S. put out more spam this year than all the other countries in the top 12 combined." All depends who's counting, I guess.

Woohoo!

[Primotech]

We're good where it counts.

Yay!

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally, something to be proud of.

Simple solution

[ringer9cs]

I am going to block USA, Korea and China on my firewall!

It's funny cuz

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

The US is supposed to have a legal tool against spam [spamlaws.com], and yet it's the worst offender in the world.

I guess we CAN-SPAM and we're mighty proud of it...

Wonderful news...

[Faust7]

So we hold the majority on manhood enhancement, hot free teens, and low low mortgage rates.

*sniff* I've never been so proud of my country.

It should be 100%!

[vikramrn]

100% of Spam comes from the USA! SPAM is a registered trademark [spam.com] of Hormel Foods [hormel.com] Corporation based in Austin, Minnesota!

Inspiration

[CaptainZapp]

The U.S. put out more spam this year than all the other countries in the top 12 combined.

They must have gotten their inspiration from military spending.

Fucking spammers!

Re:Wonderful news...

[Anonymous Coward]

So we hold the majority on manhood enhancement, hot free teens, and low low mortgage rates.

*sniff* I've never been so proud of my country.

Actually, when you really interpret the above, the US holds the majority of men with small dicks, guys who can't get any, and people who have lousy mortgages.

Re:Finally. A chance to whore some karma!

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

This could explain South Korea's position near the top of the list, as it leads the world for broadband penetration.

Gee, poor guys, if someone threatened me of broadband penetration, I guess I'd send out unsolicited email too...

Re:Woohoo!

[seanadams.com]

We're good where it counts.

Where's that? The enl@rjd p3njs?

Here's the standard spam-solution form

[Anonymous Coward]

In anticipation of yet another wave of proposed solutions, I have attached the standard spam-solution form for your convenience:

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Your post advocates a

( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante

approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work.
Here is why it won't work:

( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

Specifically, your plan fails to account for

( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook

and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough

Re:Yay!

[sci50514]

Finally something that is not out-sourced. :)

Makes sense...

[}InFuZeD{]

Hormel is located in the United States.

Let me guess...

[JaxWeb]

...you're American? ;)

(Merry Christmas!)

Re:Headlines we'll see in 2005, 2006, ..

[Anonymous Coward]

Rinux

Re:Right!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, like I'm going to trust anything you say. You don't even know that Austria is a big island in the pacific! Psssh. Next you'll probably tell me that there's democracy outside of the USA. As if!