The most Spamming Countries: US and China

"Experts at SophosLabs™ scanned all spam messages received in the company's global network of spam traps, and have revealed that while the United States has continued to make good progress in its efforts to reduce spam-relaying statistics, there is still more spam sent from US computers than any other nation. However as a continent, North America is now close to being overtaken by Europe, with both lying behind Asia in terms of spam relayed."

China is runner-up as the second most spamming country in the world, with ca. 22 per cent of worldwide spam originating from Chinese computers. The data needs to be interpreted carefully, as spam senders often use foreign servers to physically send the spam from, while they are themselves located in another place, without too many legal cooperation programmes…

The results: http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/04/dirtydozapr06.html 

FTC Calls for International Anti-Spam Efforts

FTC Calls for International Anti-Spam Efforts

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) joined 29 other countries in calling for increased cooperation between nations in combating spam. The FTC signed off on a set of anti-spam recommendations by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a coalition of 30 countries organized to promote economic growth and trade.

More information about OECD activities on  countering spam can be found here.

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Follow-up: the text of the ruling on e-mail servers

Here is the original regulation and its translation:
http://www.fairylaw.com/lawyers/lxwm/200604/901.html

Side Effect of Spam Law

The Anti-Spam law China has introduced recently (see
http://www.isc.org.cn/20020417/ca346007.htm) apparently has a little-noticed
side-effect, as vunet.com remarks: "The new rules, which came into force two
weeks ago, mean that most companies running their own email servers in China
are now breaking the law.... China's new rules also prohibit use of email to
discuss certain vaguely defined subjects related to 'network security' and
'information security', and also reiterate that emails which contain content
contrary to existing laws must not be copied or forwarded. "
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2154063/china-outlaws-outlook

Vice-premier Wu Yi: Operators free to pick 3G standards

Source: http://www.cn-c114.net/newsheadline_html/2006413103813-1.Html
Updated: 2006-4-13 10:38:13

Mainland telecommunications operators would be able to choose which 3G
standard they want to adopt and would not be forced to use homegrown
technology, eports quoted Vice-Premier Wu Yi as saying during a Washington
trade summit yesterday.