On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, John Andersen wrote:
> How, then, would sould someone running a Tax Accountancy in East
> Midlands Texax suffer from blocking all of China?
>
> I have most of Korea blocked. I can't read a word of Korean.
Not everything comming out of China/Korea is in Chinese/Korean.
In this globalized economy rife with outsourcing, it's not at all
impossible that the ISP that your Texas Taxman contracts to provide
him website/mailing lists hosting may actually be located in China.
I've seen a fair amount of spam (in English) which had domain names
(both in the mail headers and in URLs in the body) that are registered
to US companies but are being sent from Chinese ISPs.
Bulk hosting is now international business. I've seen Russian spam
being sent from Chinese ISPs, English spam hosted from Russia, etc.
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