on 21/4/02 9:04 pm, Ronn Blankenship at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 12:27 AM 4/21/02, Matthew Bos asked a question about processing Chinese > text in Word: > > > About all I know is that in recent months I have been getting a goodly > amount of spam in Chinese, Korean, and other Oriental languages, as have > some others I have talked to, and none of us know what we did to get on a > Chinese junk mail list� . . . > >
The majority of the spam I receive is about stuff like credit cards, mortgages and health insurance which would only apply if I were a US citizen living in the US (I am neither). Spam is indiscriminate. Most email addresses are .com, .net or .org etc rather than .us or .uk making it impossible for spammers to target countries even if they wanted to. This is probably less obvious to Americans since the US *was* the largest single presence on the internet. Now consider that Korea (AFAIK) has the highest penetration of broadband internet in the world, that Chinese ideographs are the most common written language etc and it seems likely that in a few years most spam (and most of the www for that matter) will be in ideographs rather than English. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
