Re: The Geography of Spam

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On 2 Mar 2004, at 15:57, Michael Airhart wrote:

> > [snip]
>
> Somehow it seems like when you take into account the number of PCs on 
> high speed connections, these numbers make a lot of sense.  The US has 
> a large population of these PCs so yeah, duh, the US leads in 
> compromised hosts.

Well, the report "Broadband Internet Access in OECD Countries" shows 
that in 2002 only 36% of all broadband internet users were in the US. 
That's a greater proportion than any other single country, but 
according to that report most broadband subscribers are not in the US.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-239660A2.pdf

The quoted report said "the U.S. routes more spam e-mail traffic than 
the rest of the world combined", not "... than any other single 
country".

So it appears there might be other forces at work than simply "more 
broadband users".


Joe