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RE: spam wanted :)

  • From: Jamie Bowden
  • Date: Thu Apr 10 10:34:47 2008

s/recently/ever/

I'd be happy if I could tell Gmail to delete anything in a non Roman
character set.  I don't read Hebrew, Arabic, Kanji, Hangul, Cyrillic, or
any of the other various character sets I get spam in.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Marshall Eubanks
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:39 AM
To: William Waites
Cc: Rich Kulawiec; North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: spam wanted :)



On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:35 AM, William Waites wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:55:21AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:32:53PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> for a measurement experiment, i would like O(100k) *headers* from  
>>> spam
>>> from europe and a similar sample from the states.
>>
>> Request for clarification: do you mean "spam originating at IP  
>> addresses
>> believed to be in Europe" or "spam received at a mail server  
>> located in
>> Europe" or "spam putatively from domains in Europe" or something  
>> else?
>
> One thing that happened when I moved to Europe and started doing
> business in Germany is that relatively soon I began receiving spam in
> German (which seems to have quite different content, and sales
> strategy, actually, perhaps reflecting cultural differences in the
> manner of buying and selling between the anglophone world and  
> Germany).

I receive serious amounts of spam in Hebrew and Russian, and haven't  
even been to
either Israel or Russia recently.

Regards
Marshall

>
>
> Trying to separate out what "in" Europe means in this case seems to  
> come
> down to having given out email addresses to web sites and collegues in
> a different language environment rather than physical presence of  
> either
> myself or my mailserver in either North America or Europe. I guess the
> German spam I have been receiving is only european in that German
> speakers happen to be mostly in Europe, which is not true of English
> speakers.
>
> I wonder, is the (English language) spam set that one is likely to  
> receive
> in Australia statistically different than what one is likely to  
> receive in
> the US?
>
> -w