The Logic Off Topic list

On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:39 am, Hendrik Jan Veenstra wrote:
> Thoughts from the mind of Colin Miller, 18-05-2002:
> >  99.9% of all spam I get comes from outside the US.
>
> A lot from aol.com over here...  I.e. US.  Not that I care where it
> comes from...  The fact that there's spam at all is what annoys me.

Are you actually lookup up the IP addresses of the host they come from, or 
just looking at the from and reply addresses which are always forged? Course 
a lot of those foreign spams are probably US companies using foreign sources.

Colin Miller

Also, most spam that really is from AOL is an account that has been hacked, so 
it's hard to say where it originates from.