emarketer.com — More than half of the two trillion e-mail messages sent in 2006 are likely to be spammed. According to the anti-spam Web site Spamhaus Project, about 200 spammers worldwide are responsible for about 80% of all spam in Europe and North America. There are an estimated 2,300 spammers in the US.
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chompyAug 18, 2006
So there's 200 guys out there.. wny not just start killing them? I suspect spam levels would go down a bit if there were some real consequences for doing it.
curthowlandAug 18, 2006
I think I'm wrong, but the only things that make any sense are email viruses looking for a host.
capricapunkAug 18, 2006
I GET NO SPAM!
Closed AccountAug 18, 2006
"Assassination Politics" Somebody told me Texas has a "He needed kllin' law...If your in Texas and you kill a child molester,nothing happens to you cause he needed killin.
altosaxonAug 19, 2006
It is growing to fast. Can anyone say DEATH SENTENCE?
ellenweberAug 20, 2006
It would be interesting if some of this cost could be sent back to those who commit email fraud. meanwhile it seems that firms make money on the guys who create new needs -- and at times I hear these two side work together to create the need and demand new softwares which they are happy to sell us. Hmmm - now that is a new way of marketing. Thanks for post. Brain Based Business
nicepantsAug 21, 2006
What needs to happen is to fight fire with fire. BlueSecurity took on a similar configuration to a "bot network" except that each node was purposefully installed by a user. A large community of nodes could easily dwarf the spammers' bot army.Spammers would not have fought BlueSecurity if it wasn't a threat. The idea was right, the implementation needed some work. We know how to hit them where it hurts (bandwidth), and I am looking forward to the day when spammers the world over will be defeated......i just wish we could burn them.