73% of Spam sites hosted in China

[Train]

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I dont see why China consistently gets away scott free with stuff like this. id really like congress to grow some nuts and tell China that if they dont stop all the Spamming and Piracy (which costs the US billions a year) that we just might slap some tarrifs on thier cheap @ss products.

Offers of drugs, particularly Viagra, accounted for about one-third of global spam messages sent in the first half of 2004, according to a study by Commtouch, a company that sells antispam products.

Commtouch, which says it analyzed hundreds of millions of unsolicited e-mails, said about 55 percent of spam messages originated in the United States, while slightly more than 73 percent of them referred recipients to Web sites hosted in China. China, South Korea, the United States, Russia and Brazil host more than 99 percent of all Web sites mentioned in spam, according to Commtouch.

Pitches for drugs and medicines made up about 30 percent of spam e-mails. Mortgage/refinancing and "organ enlargement" ranked second and third with 9 percent and 7 percent respectively.

The adoption in the United States of a federal antispam law, last year's Can-Spam act, has done little to deter spammers, Commtouch found. The number of unique spam outbreaks per day shot up to 500,000 by the end of June, from 350,000 at beginning of January.

By June, however, there was Can-Spam compliance among 10 percent of spam messages. The act requires that unsolicited e-mail messages have a functioning return e-mail address, provide a postal address and include an option to "unsubscribe." Messages must also carry a subject line that is not deceptive.

The analysis also brought to the fore the fact that most spam is written in English, with only 5.77 percent in other languages.

 

[Dissipate]

id really like congress to grow some nuts and tell China that if they dont stop all the Spamming and Piracy (which costs the US billions a year) that we just might slap some tarrifs on thier cheap @ss products.

Their "cheap @ss products" are about the only thing keeping prices down. Slap tariffs on those and watch prices go up. No thank you.

 

[eigen]

Especially since w can get rid of spam by other means.ie MTA/SPF, better filters etc.

 

[shiner]

Damn outsourcing!!!! That does it....I'm voting for Kerry in November. We need to bring those spam hosting jobs back to America!!!!!!!

 

[Train]

How does the problem of foreign outsourcing make you want to Vote for Kerry?

 

[MrGrim257]

You want to know how they are really screwing us?? The value of their currency is locked to the dollar, meaning their currency moves with ours. This means their imports will always be cheaper, and our exports to them will always be more expensive. I'd tell them they got 12 months to unlock their currency, or we're going to slap a tariff on their imports to reflect the deflated value of their currency.

Oh yeah, this is a flagrant violation of WTO rules, which they signed on to. Is the WTO going to do anything about it??? HELL NO. It's just another international institution screwing America.

 

[geecee]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Damn outsourcing!!!! That does it....I'm voting for Kerry in November. We need to bring those spam hosting jobs back to America!!!!!!!

😀
Eliminate the 55% of spam originated in the US and pass tough spam legislation for the rest and the problem will take care of itself won't it?

EDIT: BTW, you'll probably find many large US corporations who would disagree with tariffs (for fear of reprisal mostly). That's probably why the subject of piracy and counterfeit goods hasn't become more of an issue also. They want to do business there because there is a potential billion+ customer base. A lot of cigarette companies stand to make a killing out there (literally and figuratively), which is big for them, in light of their recent domestic troubles.

 

[Bling]

How can China change to worth of their concurrency to always be the same proportion to the US's?

 

[halik]

They are a big sovereign nation and as such it's hard to influence their domestic legislature.
Here's what i would do:

a) better can-spam act where people themselves can sue the spammers
b) mandatory port 25 blocking by default for all ISPs. If you wanna have it open, call em up and they will. This will take care of the zombies
c) start narrowing down chinas backbone bandwith exponentionaly as a function of the amount of spam they spew out. At some point they'll realize they're only fvcking themselves over.
d) make it illegal to purchase products from emails that dont carry the [ADV:] subject line. The reason why spam is so omnipresent is because its a viable business model. If you attack the demand, rather than supply, you'll win.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Train
How does the problem of foreign outsourcing make you want to Vote for Kerry?

Check your sarcasm meter

 

[Train]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: Train
How does the problem of foreign outsourcing make you want to Vote for Kerry?

Check your sarcasm meter

oh damn, and I swore no one would ever have to say that to me, lol. Should haev knocked on wood when I said that one.