perhaps... symantec is correct...
in our stats here.. we temporarily block our client's link because those
clients didnt know that their pc was infected to act as a spammer... majority
are windows based operating system....
fooler.
----- Original Message -----
From: Pablo Manalastas
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 5:05 PM
Subject: [plug] [OT] RP is e-mail spam capital of Asia?
In my yahoo360 blog, I wrote:
RP is e-mail spam capital of Asia? (March 27, 2007)
A news report by ABS-CBN News
(http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=71193) claims that
"according to the (Symantec) report, 88 percent of e-mails coming from the
Philippines are spam".
I strongly disagree with this claim, for several reasons. First, Filipinos
do not yet have an e-mail culture. The truth is, we do not have a writing
culture at all! Filipinos don't write. Period. We may be the text capital of
the world, because we are text crazy. We do not write when we send text message
messages like "D2 NA ME" instead of "NANDITO NA AKO". We telegraph, abbreviate,
corrupt our Taglish into non-recognizable gibberish. But we don't write! How
can 88 percent of our emails be spam, when we hate sending emails? To prove
this, just email your favorite congressman and see if he will answer you within
one year.
Second, we do not have enough computers, and those who have computers do
not have broadband access. Broadband is a requirement for generating email in
such volumes as to be considered spam. From the point of view of
infrastructure, we can NOT be the e-mail spam capital of Asia.
I think Symantec did not study its data enough to make that conclusion. Did
Symantec check the e-mail envelopes (that contain all the email hops) to verify
the actual origin of the emails? I think Symantec had been remiss in ignoring
the e-mail envelopes.
I will agree that 88 percent of the emails that I receive is spam. Emails
from other countries selling Viagra to me and to my daughters, or selling all
kinds of vitamins and pharmaceuticals, or e-mails from South Africa wanting to
give me USD2,000,000.00, or e-mails telling me that I have won USD4,000,000.00
etc, or Windows-virus-carrying e-mails which I laugh at because I use Linux.
The list is endless. But I don't originate them -- I just receive them, and
most of them are from abroad. And my experience, and the experiences of my
colleagues point to the conclusion that 88 percent of e-mail that we RECEIVE
from abroad is SPAM. Not 88 percent of emails that we send. Symantec -- study
your data before you make such wild accusations.
P~Manalastas
P.S.: I mentioned Linux so that this post will fit into the into the
[PLUG-OT] mailing list.
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