Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)
Paul Johnson wrote:
>On Wednesday 23 August 2006 03:22, Matt Johnson wrote:
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>>----- Original Message ----
>>From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
>>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM
>>Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over
>>List!)
>>
>>Steve Lamb wrote:
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>>>> Furthermore (not to you Hal) I find it mildly Ironic that anyone
>>>>from Brazil would worry about what other people are doing on a mailing
>>>>list. When Brazil decides to crack down on its own prolific black-hacker
>>>>community and widely open spam relays is the day anyone from Brazil can
>>>>say anything disparaging to people who are at least mildly on topic in a
>>>>mailing list.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Hear, hear!
>>>
>>>
>>Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from only certain
>>nationalities on this list? You've lost me here, lads. Perhaps you could
>>exlain this clearly.
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>Brazil, China and the EU are the three worst regions that spam my server.
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Target marketing.
You're in the States, and therefore classified as American market source.
I'm in Australia, and it's all China and Korea here.
Very little from South America or EU.
ISP spammers are usually hired by corporates who specify the target market.
Third world ISPs take the contracts to bring in the dough that the local
market can't supply, and then employ clients, whom they then protect.
Corporates employ off-shore spammers because they have the cheap labour
resources ( a lot of the ISPs clients get free online in return for
spamming), act as an identity buffer for public image factors, and being
off-shore, the ISP, and therefore corporate identity, enjoys a level of
insulation from prosecution.
Last fiscal year, the American pharmaceutical sector invested $4 billion
in direct advertising.
Not all of that went to spammers, but if it did, it would have
translated into an effective $20 billion in advertising value.
Regards,
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