[103650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: spam wanted :)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Apr 10 09:41:19 2008
Cc: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080410133517.GJ27610@river.styx.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:39:21 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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
