spam increase: fivefold, according to Brightmail

[David E. Weekly]

Interestingly enough, the *majority* of spam mail I receive is in Chinese.
I'm not Chinese myself, nor have I visited Chinese sites, so I don't think
I've been specially selected or anything.

Has anyone else also seen this? It's to the point where I just delete all
non-Roman-character email now. ~10-20 Chinese messages a day, maybe more.

-david


----- Original Message -----
From: Strata Rose Chalup <strata at virtual.net>
To: <baylisa at baylisa.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 12:16 AM
Subject: spam increase: fivefold, according to Brightmail


>
> With some of the recent discussions, I found this interesting:
>
> "Brightmail, a San Francisco company that sells spam-catching software,
> says there has been a five-fold increase in the volume of spam in the
> past 18 months."
>
> Excerpt from an article about Bennet Haselton pursuing small-claims
> judgements on spammers under the WA law:
>
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134390118_spam12m.html
>
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