"Nearly 86% of all spam messages sent since May 2004 came from the United States, according to e-mail security firm CipherTrust. This indicates spammers are finding ways around that country's anti-spam legislation," reports Silicon.com.
Although Korea represents 28% of the IP addresses used to send spam, it only accounts for 3% of junk mail.
"The UK barely registers in both areas, accounting for just 0.21% of the total spam volume and 0.54% of the IP addresses."
Comment: Most of the spam I get is aimed at US users, with prices in dollars, so it's even more of a waste of time for me than it is for them. But it does make you wonder if there is a simpler way to block it. Could we, perhaps, move all the spam checking to the US borders, to stop American spammers from polluting the net? It would save the rest of the world a huge amount of pointless aggravation.... at least until the biggest US-based spammers moved some of their operations offshore.
