[Air-l] spam, if you can't lick 'em...

[michael gurstein]

I'm not exactly sure why people get bent out of shape by Spam.  I find some
interest, exotic/amusing/commercial/sociological/scatalogical from about
one out of every 10 spam messages--not too far off the percentage for most
email lists I inhabit ;-) and roughly the same percentage I get from "junk
mail".

I agree, that the lack of real cost in distributing Spam would, without
some continuing counterpressure, result in it becoming overwhelming, but I
must say I don't find it the problem others seem to, at least so long as I
have my "d" finger intact...

MG

> Barry Wellman wrote:
>
>> I am starting to notice that my spam is coming from similar exotic
>> locales. For example, one today came from "chinahot" but by way of
>> ".kr". I can't even begin to guess where .kr is.
>
> It's South Korea
>
>> So I am thinking of starting a spam collection, of exotic .somethings.
>> Who knows, perhaps it will be worth money someday to a future Brewster
>> Kahle. Would someone please point me to a list of Internet suffixes?
>
> http://www1.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/country-codes.txt
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