[extropy-chat] SPAM: The China Flu

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, BillK wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:27:28 -0800 (PST), Mike Lorrey wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> Mike is just miffed that free enterprise spam from the US has been
> knocked off the top spot. Up until now the US has been the main source
> spewing spam to the world.

Still is.  AFAICS the majority of the spam that's sent via
China, or advertising websites on chinese servers, is sent
by US spammers.


Rik
-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan