The spammers are winning

[burns]

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:45, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Most likely no one on this list falls into this category, but if you
> know anyone who has a company that grosses more than 100 million a year
> and an influential politician in their pocket, they need to start
> lobbying hard to stop spam and push ARIN, APNIC, RIPE, LANIC to revoke
> IP addresses of countries like China and Brasil who only care about spam
> when it concerns their own citizens.

Everything I have read indicates that in China, unlike most other
countries, state security agencies have a significant amount of control
over online activities, especially those routed to or from foreign
addresses. In fact, I believe that internet use is licensed and
regulated by their internal security department. If this is in any way
true, it would be hard to imagine that they haven't noticed, and at
least turned a blind eye to, the massive amount of spam and trojans
orginating from PRC domains.

Interesting.

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burns