[extropy-chat] SPAM: The China Flu

[Kevin Freels]

If ALL spammers set up in China, wouldn't it be fairly easy to filter them?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
To: <extropy-chat at extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: [extropy-chat] SPAM: The China Flu


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> | China and its Relation With Spam                                   |
> |   from the but-i-don't-like-spam dept.                             |
> |   posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 13, @13:27 (Spam)          |
> |   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/1758203           |
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> 
> smooth wombat writes "[0]Asia Times has a nice article about why China
> is becoming the [1]spam capital of the world. Steve Linford, of
> Spamhaus fame, is quoted several times in the article and offers some
> insight into how the Chinese ISPs operate. Steves quote at the end of
> the article pretty much sums up why China isn't doing anything to curb
> the hosting of spam website servers in the country: "They simply don't
> want to know - China Telecom doesn't care because they're
> government-owned and there is no pressure coming from the government.
> Meanwhile, our statistics on spam volumes and the number of spammers
> setting up in China are going up and up and up.""
> 
> Discuss this story at:
>     http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/12/13/1758203
> 
> Links:
>     0. http://www.atimes.com/
>     1. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL14Ad02.html
> 
> -end quote-
> 
> Is there any better demonstration of why nationalized ANYTHING is a bad
> idea? Looks to be like China will become the Love Canal of spam, at
> least until some bureaucrat gets annoyed because his secretaries are
> spending too much time filtering his spam and not enough polishing his
> knob, and decides to round up all the spammers and send them off to the
> organ farms... hmmm maybe nationalizing spam isn't such a bad idea....
> ;)
> 
> 
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