hi ya
> I am finishing this story and I am trying to find the latest
> statistics from a reputable source--preferably not affiliated with pro- or
> anti-spammers-- on the simple number of spams people are receiving now (or
the only places i know for spam info are either pro or anti-spaam places
> 2001) and can expect to receive, in say, five years. I've seen it a million
> times but I would prefer something very fresh and RIGHT NOW (grrr) I can't
> find one.
sometimes one forgets where one saved the "i should remember this stuff"
and neatly hide it someplace... and forget where that was ??
> Also, I am looking for a number of how many PCs there are that
> serve as relays to spam and anything else meaner, of course, which is the
count the number of entries in the relays that the RBLs lists...
http://www.moensted.dk/spam/ -- list of 126 rbls
http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm -- list of 76 rbls
> topic of my piece. I understand that just about anything can relay but
> especially broadband connections and anything functioning as a server.
> (This includes most computers, I expect.)
not quite ... most are NOT an open relay used by spammers ...
but those mail servers that are misconfigured are used by the spammers
most linux distro now days leeave relaying off... such that your own
emails sometimes wont be sent .. unless you go in and configure it to
send your own email out the door
list of statistics on spams... ( bottom of page )
http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/antispam.gwif.html
> I also include little info on possible laws in this piece,
> choosing instead to focus on how ISPs could be dealing with it better,and
> if more people were educated and complained, then some ISPs would be forced
> out of business. It is a complicated story and there is no room for
> everything I would like to include.
> >. A few states have passed laws against it, and the federal government is
> >moving to bolster them, but most rely on the senders to police themselves,
> >and all suffer from an obvious problem: Spam knows no boundaries. Even
> >with a superb law that criminalizes all deceptive tactics, how would one
> >prosecute across international lines? It may never happen.
>
> Thanks.
> Kathy
...
> >That is, at least in part, why SpamCon Foundation is here. :)
> >
> > > What can anyone do about the spam problem?
> >
> >I presume you've already read the following four pages, and
> >potentially things linked from them?
> >
> >http://www.spamcon.org/recipients/spam-response/index.shtml
> >http://www.spamcon.org/marketers/index.shtml
> >http://www.spamcon.org/sysadmins/index.shtml
> >http://law.spamcon.org/
>
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