Is it necessary to use such a sexist and ageist profile?Statistically speaking it's a very accurate generalization and I see little reason to ignore such things based on what might be more politically correct. Zombie spam is less gender-biased because of how the addresses are collected, i.e. domain name registrations, Web sites, newsgroups, message boards and some from static spammers methods, static spammers on the other hand gather addresses from things like free offers and contests which are definitely gender-biased. As a result of this women, and especially women over the age of 30 represent a disporportionally large number of the accounts that receive over 100 spams a day.
If this was a discussion of spyware instead of spam, I would be talking abou the 13-30 year old male as being the primary demographic.
And is this _really_ the only notable demographic giving you aYou can classify this in many different ways and get many different answers. One domain for instance receives 40 times the average number of viruses/user and accounts for about half of our total virus traffic which is a problem as far as performance goes (about 60 viruses per address per day). The demographic in question is mostly on my mind because this domain operates a large listserv targeted at 50+ year old women, and the fact that they operate a large listserv and their demographic contribute to the huge imbalance here. I also have several smaller domains that only have 2 or 3 spammed addresses, and apart from the addresses listed on their site or that their domain is registered with, it is regularly women that made the mistake of getting on one or several ROKSO spammer's lists.
disproportionate support headache?
I do have other issues also, such as a single user domain where the guy does a ton of Ebay business selling stamps, and he gets probably half of our total number of Nigerian scams, and probably 2-3 times a week, these messages get through to his account. So another demographic that might be of use is that it appears Ebayers might tend to attract Nigerian scam E-mails, but that's only a theory at the moment.
Companies that do business with foreign countries are another issue because I punish many foreign senders and I need to exempt such domains from these filters. Something of note here is that I learned several years ago while working for a large multi-national corporation is that it is more politically correct to refer to this as "international" traffic. Hopefully I haven't offended anyone :)
Let me get this straight, you didn't like my association of a particular demographic with spam, but you feel that it is appropriate to then classify young men as what created the Internet bubble?And, finally, let's not forget what a wonderful job some "young bucks" did blowing hot air into the bubble--with ideas that only the Internet Generation could understand.
Two things...first, that's incorrect, it was the ":old bucks" that created the bubble, the young Internet entrepreneurs were just patsies in the game that created billions of dollars in underwriting profits and trading fees for brokerage firms. The same companies were then selling their holdings while raising price targets for the less educated retail investors to chase. This game isn't unique in any way to the Internet stocks either, that's just the biggest example, and it still continues today in markets like nanotechnology where revenue-less story-stock companies are making 30% gains per day at some points on nothing but speculation.
I, being an informed observer and careful study, made money on the bubble going both up and down...lots of money :)
To sum this all up, hopefully people can learn to be a little less sensitive in regards to such discussions, and the only reason why I mentioned this is because I found the trend to be quite remarkable and unexpected.
Matt --
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