RE: spam wanted :)

["Jamie Bowden" <jamie () photon com>]

s/recently/ever/

I'd be happy if I could tell Gmail to delete anything in a non Roman
character set.  I don't read Hebrew, Arabic, Kanji, Hangul, Cyrillic, or
any of the other various character sets I get spam in.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Marshall Eubanks
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:39 AM
To: William Waites
Cc: Rich Kulawiec; North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: spam wanted :)



On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:35 AM, William Waites wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:55:21AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:32:53PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > for a measurement experiment, i would like O(100k) *headers* from  
> > > spam
> > > from europe and a similar sample from the states.
> >
> > Request for clarification: do you mean "spam originating at IP  
> > addresses
> > believed to be in Europe" or "spam received at a mail server  
> > located in
> > Europe" or "spam putatively from domains in Europe" or something  
> > else?
>
> One thing that happened when I moved to Europe and started doing
> business in Germany is that relatively soon I began receiving spam in
> German (which seems to have quite different content, and sales
> strategy, actually, perhaps reflecting cultural differences in the
> manner of buying and selling between the anglophone world and  
> Germany).

I receive serious amounts of spam in Hebrew and Russian, and haven't  
even been to
either Israel or Russia recently.

Regards
Marshall

> Trying to separate out what "in" Europe means in this case seems to  
> come
> down to having given out email addresses to web sites and collegues in
> a different language environment rather than physical presence of  
> either
> myself or my mailserver in either North America or Europe. I guess the
> German spam I have been receiving is only european in that German
> speakers happen to be mostly in Europe, which is not true of English
> speakers.
>
> I wonder, is the (English language) spam set that one is likely to  
> receive
> in Australia statistically different than what one is likely to  
> receive in
> the US?
>
> -w