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Jim Bender / September 16, 2004 8:51 PM / #

The map seemed to suggest a political slant to the geographic areas that generate the most spam. The reddest spots are amazingly concentrated.

I suppose some are concetnrated in areas where there is an emerging techonolgy base, such as an isolated area in China, a little in India, and bigtime in Eastern Europe. I guessed that the areas in Spain an d Portugal were Madrid and Lisbon.

Why the spam in Canada?

I guess you are continuing the thread on Internet pollution, of which email spam is one piece. It seems to involve spoofing email addresses, more and more, and they are increasingly coming as returned mail with a virus attached, which is blocked by McAfee.

Michael Heraghty / September 20, 2004 1:01 PM / #

Interesting analysis Jim, thanks.