China Popular For Hosting Spammed Sites
from the not-sure-why dept
A new study has come out pointing out that a huge percentage (71%) of websites in spam messages point to servers hosted in China. This doesn't mean that the spammers are Chinese or that the companies they're advertising are Chinese - but it appears that's where many spamvertised companies decide to host their websites. What's odd about this, of course, is that China is notoriously strict about what can be done on the internet in China, and many of these spammed sites include porn and other things the Chinese government isn't particularly fond of. In the end, it looks like something of an economic decision: hosting is cheaper in China, and that's the end of the story. It will be interesting to see if Chinese authorities start cracking down on these spamvertised sites.
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Hungry an hour later
I was not aware that the Chinese even cooked with Spam. Isn't Spam and American luncheon meat by-product ?
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God Bless Hormel
The history and colorful links about spam can be found here: http://www.spam.com/
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I found that I had a big fall in spam when I effectively blocked the whole of Asia from a procmail recipe - mainly .kr domains - as an experiment.
I don't get spam anymore now though as my new Email address is not given to companies I buy stuff from (I use the format company@mydomain.com for an alias, and this is how I proved that buy.com sells Email addresses as I got spam to buy.com@mydomain.com) or posted on newsgroups.
The only spam I still get to another address is my hostmaster@mydomain.com which used in my WHOIS records.
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William sings the hits
She spams
Talk to me
Tell me your name
You blow me off like it's all the same
You lit a fuse and now I'm ticking away
Like a bomb
Yeah, Baby
Talk to me
Tell me your sign
You're switching sides like a Gemini
You're playing games and now you're hittin' my
heart
Like a drum
Yeah, Baby
Well if Lady Luck gets on my side
We're gonna rock this town alive
I'll let her rough me up
Till she knocks me out
She walks like she talks,
And she talks like she walks
And she spams, she spams
Oh baby
When she moves, she moves
I go crazy
'Cause she looks like a flower but she stings
like a bee
Like every girl in history
She spams, she spams
I'm wasted by the way she moves
No one ever looked so fine
She reminds me that a woman only got one thing on her mind
Talk to me
Tell me your name
I'm just a link in your daisy chain
Your rap sounds like a diamond
Map to the stars
Yeah, Baby
Talk to me
Tell me the news
You wear me out like a pair of shoes
We'll dance until the band goes home
Then you're gone
Yeah, Baby
Well if it looks like love should be a crime
You'd better lock me up for life
I'll do the time with a smile on my face
Thinking of her in her leather and lace
Well if Lady Luck gets on my side
We're gonna rock this town alive
I'll let her rough me up
Till she knocks me out
She walks like she talks,
And she talks like she walks
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Re: William sings the hits
okay willian hung...
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I don't see China doing anything meaningful to stop this from happening as long as the spammers and porn sites leave the INSIDE of China alone.
As long as its all outgoing, Chinese ISPs get money, which is good for China. The spam disrupts the rest of the evil capitalistic world, which is good for China.
They can even earn some PR goodwill by catching a couple of ISPs and stopping 0.00002% of the traffic.
And if the rest of the world eventually cuts China off from net access because of it...its what China wants.
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Re: William sings the hits
A poet who reads his verse in public probably has other nasty habits.
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Re: William sings the hits
and they can be viewed on American Idol.
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gina3184@gmail.com
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