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Re: there aren't that many serious spammers any more?


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:14:41 -0400

On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:33:40 EDT, John LaCour said:
Richard Clayton posts on the Univ of Cambridge Blog about his analysis
of Demon Internet spam traffic vs. non-spam traffic and concludes that
most spam comes from a few gangs.

Interesting article here:
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/04/03/there-arent-that-many-serious-spammers-any-more/

Spamhaus maintained a list of top spammers, and I don't think their list
ever got much bigger than "these 200 are responsible for 85% of the spam".
There of course are a lot of chickenboners out there, but they hardly matter
in the greater scheme of things.


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