On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 23:27 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote:
> I was looking at this article
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam
>
> It claims that "only five countries are hosting 99.68% of the global
> spammer websites", of which the foremost is China, hosting 73.58% of
> all web sites referenced within spam.[30]
Now that's one number.
Please note that this article is dated June 30th, 2004. Rather ancient
in terms of Spam. Just have a look at the "absolute numbers" in that
very Wikipedia article.
Also, the Wikipedia article does not claim it, but cite it. According to
the cited Commtouch report, the number is based on one *month* and
actually decreased by 4.5% from the previous month. At a rate like this,
there is no spam-vertised URL hosted in China today...
Anyway, according to my own, personal stats, China does indeed host the
most sites (out of the set I picked for observation a while ago, which
does not include the USA, for example). My numbers don't even come close
to 73% though...
guenther
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char *t="[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
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(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
