Matt Kettler writes:
>At 03:13 PM 7/21/2003 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote:
>>I got a spam today that came from "YOUNGIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL" in Korea. 
>>They are starting them early I guess :)
>>
>>It was a "how to lose 20 lb" spam.
>
>Probably an open relay over there.. Open relays and insecure networks are a 
>massive problem in most educational institutions just due to the scale, but 
>a select few Asian nations seem to have a bigger problem with it than most. 
>It might also be that spammers enjoy targeting them, that way some of the 
>anti-spam angst gets misdirected to the wrong place.

Yeah -- I think they find it useful that the admins over there may not be
too familiar with the English language, and therefore not as fast to react
to English-language complaints.

Plus there's lots of broadband ;)

--j.


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