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
