Nothing Good comes from Russia
January 30, 2007
We at the Tribble Ad Agency noticed something, we forced all comments to be moderated and let the spam roll in for roughly 48 hours.
We then took those spam posts to see exactly what was going on. We figured we would give you a breakdown so you know where those 4873 spam comments in 48 hours came from.
57% Russia
22% US
10% China
4% India
7% Various
In essance more than 1/2 the spam comments came from Russian .ru domain names hosted in Russia.
The second leader in spam would be the .info domain name from US servers.
If you just ban .ru and .info from your comments, spam would be cut down in dramatic figures.
And an open letter to my Russian friends, please sell your Viagra at another website.
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It is because russia has a very open politic about anything internet or even computer. There’s a lot of illegal shit going on, they don’t seem to care, you can buy downloaded movies/software right off the streets…
So I guess that makes it easy for spam companies to set-up in russia.
Well.. Yeah we ain`t got no fancy laws about Internet, but this is what freedom all about :) I got about 400gb of music. How many bucks would it cost you? I paid zero. And ph-lease don`t try to explain me that I`m stealing something. If record companies were smart enough to sell the content at affordable price that could`ve cut the piracy off.
The legal audio CD in Russia cost about 20-40$. And a student gets a scholarship of the same size every month :) What would you choose?
As for spammers – I totally agree. They deserve a slow painful death :))
UPDATE: Russian goverment is going to pass the law that will oblige internet providers in Russia take more control over the traffic (spammers included).
Perhaps they`ve read this posts :)