"John Fenley" wrote:
I was talking today with my neighbor who sends an unsolicited mailing list.
He has a different outlook on the whole issue of email and I think I
understand
................
Based on the conversations I have had with him on the subject, he is not a
"Spammer" but could be >described as someone trying to communicate with a
large number of unknown people. His volume is >low enough that he can be
personaly involved with any problems that crop up with his mailing.
.........
I wonder how many other people send lists like this, and how big a player
that group is in the scheme >of things.
You probably have some thousand like him, but they are likely less 0.5% of
the total spam volume. Far to many articles/surveys seems to validate
Spamhaus claim that ca 200+ spammers makes 90% of all spam. Then in between
is all the guys, like he who tries to sell refilled HP Laser cassettes all
over the world, a number of people doing their own more intense spamming.
Question is, how many URL's and phone numbers they use, for that would
indicate the total number of spammers there is. I still believe that we have
only around some 30.000 addresses (as commented in earlier postings).
Kurt Magnusson
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