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NNTP - Lisa Minter wrote: Some experts blame China, which cracks down on political dissent and pornography on the Internet, for being a haven for "spammers" due to neglect. Last year, the government blocked dozens of computer servers believed to be sending spam.You don't have to be an expert to blame China for being a part of thespam problem; analysis of the spam that I receive personally and thespam reported to me by employees at work show that the majority -- I'destimate two thirds to three quarters -- of the URLs advertised pointto China. I'd guess that others share the experience to some degree.I can only guess that the government is acting on spam sent within (orinto) China and ignoring the (coincidentally, of course,revenue-generating) hosting of spammers' web sites. The term spam originally comes from "spiced ham" made by U.S. canned food giant Hormel Foods Corp.Well, that really explains the connection well.Geoffrey Welsh If anything worth doing is worth doing right, then surely anything not worthdoing right is not worth doing at all.
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