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join:2007-03-20
Pensacola, FL | Can we... Stone him with spam?
5% really isn't the Pole position is it? | |
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earthlinknyc
join:2003-06-04
Maspeth, NY
| wow i guess that's a lot spam There is always a lot spam even on polish websites as i know. poles are trying to make a money anyway it is possible. my mother in law who live in poland she get a lot spam on her mailbox and even she had spam which she never install it. she tried to be careful but her computer has to be clean every couple months. even she use norton antispam or whatever, that doesn't help her out. | |
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AnonProxy
Proxy of Anon
Premium
join:2001-05-12
ß | They don't want to reduce anything It's how they make their money. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: They don't want to reduce anything Exactly... I'm sure they're being paid well to look the other way and have use of a decent sized pipe. | |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Naming and shaming That Polish ISP is none other than tpnet.pl. Sometimes
over half of the spam I get in a day is from them.
They are either clueless about botnet zombies on their
network, or are spam friendly themselves.
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fancydancer
Perception is reality
Premium
join:2002-08-28
Springfield, IL
clubs: | Re: Naming and shaming I would guess the latter.
Here is proof:
»www.senderbase.org/
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Hpower
Roflmao
join:2000-06-08
Glendale, CA | Meh Dang, yahoo is pretty high there too. 7.4% is quiet something if you compare it worldwide. Damn, I miss the old days when there was no damn spam when the net was so new.
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Total Emails
@com.br
| Re: Meh Thats emails, not necessarily spam. Yahoo I am sure has a much larger user base than a polish telecom. I bet even you have a yahoo account. That accounts for the hight rate of emails from them. How come no Nigerian ISP's? Guess they must be going through other countries | |
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jgkolt
Premium
join:2004-02-21
Lakewood, OH
clubs:
| spam It is good we know where this spam is coming from so the people can be identified and the spam regulated. We know the spammers will try and do something else to spam but if we can hinder them enough it may not be as attractive to do so. Although money is really tight in Poland so if there is any way to make money I am sure they are trying to do it. I would like to see the gambling statistics for poland online.
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T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX
 ·Time Warner Cable
| Re: spam I don't get it. Why not just block this polish companies IP's? That solution won't work with all of the people on that list but if you've got one ISP that is that bad of an offender then this seems like a logical solution. Am I missing something? | |
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Jehu
Premium
join:2002-09-13
MA | Re: spam IPs are a dime a dozen to spammers.
Spamming is so complex these days. It's not just about tossing out millions of emails.
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join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY
| Re: spam I'm Polish and visit Poland every couple of years. I think people are pretty clueless there when it comes to security. So called IT professionals never heard of ZoneAlarm and Firefox. I talked to one of those briefly and asked him why he still uses IE, he was like "why not?". They believe that as long a machine has some sort of antivirus it's safe, no idea of worms and trojans. They don't patch Windows because MS is evil so they happily run unpatched XP SP1 without firewalls. It's a wild east of IT, a total mess. Plus, most Poles have the attitude that they know everything: everyone of them is a pro-mechanic, smith, carpenter, doctor and IT pro just because he is. IT shops are run by people who got their IT education from web and computer magazines. It's not to say there are no real pros there but they either work for a foreign corporation or already migrated to the west. | |
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join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | Re: spam By the way, tpnet.pl is the Polish Telcom (Telekomunikacja Polska - TP), largest in the country. I think it's still owned by the govt so good luck getting anywhere with them:)
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join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | Re: spam Yeah, I wasn't sure of that. A. | |
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Jerry Boy
@tpnet.pl
| It should be call French Telecom becouse it's in french hands.
Don't make all polish computer users stupid. I'm polish, I use Opera 9.20 & NOD32 antivirus (perfectly fast becouse it has been written in assembeler). I recive about 30 spam e-mail per day and most of them is US, western european or russian.. 5% means about 2 letters in my case. it's not a serious problem when you compare to number of 30...:P | |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
| That's sad - so called IT Professionals being totally
clueless about security. Sounds like they have a major
PEBKAC problem.
So what will it take for Polish Telecom to get its
customers (and them, since they are responsible for
their network) to clean up their act? Blackholing by
their upstream?
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join:2002-01-09
Maspeth, NY | Re: spam I don't know but the country is quite a political mess and IT security is probably way down on the priority list. Laws are inadequate and/or unenforceable. I guess blocking them would cause some reaction though.
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RonKid
@mindspring.com
| Please read this so you may change your opinion a bit as to who's the best  )
Warsaw U Wins World Collegiate Programming Contest
3/20/2007
By Paul McCloskey
Three students from Poland's Warsaw University won the 31st-annual International Collegiate Programming Contest, dubbed the Olympics of computer programming. The Polish team vanquished 6,099 teams from 1,756 universities in 82 countries on six continents that began with regional contests last fall.
Tsinghua University in China, St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics in Russia, and MIT in the U.S., finished competition in second, third, and fourth places, respectively. Cal Tech's was the only other U.S. team among the top 12 finishers. The contest is sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery and IBM Corp.
The Polish team--Filip Wolski, Marcin Pilipczuk, and Marek Cygan--was led by coach Jan Madey.
The competition, which wound up last week in Tokyo, challenged students to solve a semester's worth of programming problems in five hours. The problems were modeled on real-world business challenges, such as improving airport baggage claim process, and decreasing the time it takes to load cargo ships. | |
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mcmillan
join:2001-04-15
West Bloomfield, MI
| Oh my GOD the sky is falling.  Not to be picky but did anybody realise that the glorious US OF A takes the number ONE by almost 300%???
I think we should block our own ISPs too, to be on the SAFE side. The safety switch would be nice. I for one vow to block all traffic in my firewalls. | |
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Virginian
@fisherautoparts.com | Re: Oh my GOD the sky is falling. The U.S. has a much higher number of internet-connected computers than other countries. It stands to reason that we would have a higher number of bots (along with clueless people who allow their computers to be hijacked). | |
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seagreen
Premium,Mod
join:2001-05-14
out there | What about the US? Why are "we" pointing the accusatory finger at Poland? The U.S. leads that list - we should be looking at our own problems in that area. | |
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5% of World's Spam Comes From One Polish ISP
