Hello Lynn, On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:16:37 -0800 GMT (13/12/2003, 23:16 +0700 GMT), Lynn wrote:
> I've never gotten any legitimate mail from China, South America or > Spain, Are you sure? When I still lived in Taiwan, a user on this list filtered all messages with a .tw top level domain and never saw my postings. This list features members from the China and Spain, even though I am not sure about South America at the moment. > but a high percentage of my spam mail actually originated in those > places. I read that most spam actually originates in the US, they just use open relays in those countries. > Aren't you thrilled that we now have anti-spam laws? It is estimated that 50% of all email traffic is spam by now. The anit-spam laws don't mean to be a convenience to the recipients, that's just a side-effect. The enourmous amount of spam is costing the ISPs a lot of money, they have to upgrade their bandwidth and all. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. George Best (Englische Nationalmannschaft 1966): Ich habe viel von meinem Geld fuer Alkohol, Weiber und schnelle Autos ausgegeben. Den Rest habe ich einfach verprasst. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.02.3 CE under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
