On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Ed Greshko wrote:
If you were to do that as an administrator for a company or an ISP as a blanket policy it would be quite another matter. You'd be making decisions
I am and do.
If you were to check the stats of spamming by country you'd discover that the worst offender is indeed the United States. Please have a look at
As I'm in Australia, I can asure you the US is not the largest source of spam here, I see far more from Europe than the US. although comcast
dos it best to try out-do all of EU on its own :)
Now, the fact that much of the spam is coming from compromised systems should clue people into how much the 300 million folks in the US take seriously the concept of computer security. (Insert obvious poke at Bill Gates here.)
Compromised system or deliberate, the end result is sadly the same
not a plant from those money losing companies, are you? :-)
oh my god noooooooooo I'm not, geez thats worse then what Tim refers to me as, now I'm really offended :P
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