US No Longer Leading the World In Spam 96
darthcamaro writes "America is no longer the spam king. According to Cisco, US-originated spam dropped by over two trillion messages — American-based IP addresses sent about 6.2 trillion spam messages. The new world leader is Brazil at 7.7 trillion messages. 'I'm not completely surprised to see US falling to number two in the spam stats, but I didn't expect it to happen yet,' said Cisco Fellow Patrick Peterson. 'I was really gratified to see the actual spam volume decrease, not just ranking, but we [also] decreased the amount of spam that is pouring out of the United States.'" The drop in US spam might have had something to do with the temporary shutdown of the McColo spam ISP.
First Post (Score:1, Funny)
Spam'd
I beg to differ ... (Score:5, Funny)
More than 122 million cans of the SPAM® family of products are sold worldwide each year, 90 million in the U.S. alone.
Sounds to me like the US is still the leader!
U. S. continues to fall behind (Score:4, Funny)
Re:U. S. continues to fall behind (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
We're #2! We're #2! We're #2!
In so many ways.
Learn something new every day (Score:5, Funny)
Re:First Post (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Woohoo! (Score:4, Funny)
This could serve as an inspiration to some movie script writer-
In a world where.....One man set out to generate enough spam to make his country proud. This is the story of courage, and determination...
You get the gist?
A Brazilian (Score:5, Funny)
The new world leader is Brazil at 7.7 trillion messages.
From now on, 7.7 trillion will be known as one Brazilian.
Re:Offtopic- Are we getting more mod points? (Score:5, Funny)
...slashdot's way of telling me to stop posting and start reading.
It's views like that that have ruined slashdot. The day that I am discouraged from participating in off-topic flamewars and trolling with copypasta, all the while wielding my stash of mod points like a righteous crowbar of indignation, is the day I lose hope in all that is right in the world!!
Re:Woohoo! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Woohoo! (Score:3, Funny)
Don't worry, in the bedroom America will always come first.
Re:Woohoo! (Score:2, Funny)
What? You think Windows is this flawed by coincidence? You really think that Windows-related spam and malware is just an accident? Who was the genius behind DOS and Windows at Microsoft any way? Who micro-managed it to the empire that it is?