Re: FTC busts 'world's largest spam operation'

["Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>]

> > That's news to me -- I'm still getting spam for "male enhancement"
> > products. :-)

> The biggest operation has 5.3% of the market.
> Number 2 is 4.8%, number 3 is 4.6%, and so on.

> Nuke the biggest, and you still get 95% of the spam, 
> and you probably won't notice a 5% change unless you 
> go looking for it with sophisticated statistical tools. 

It all depends how you define "biggest" -- number of spams, number of
people involved, amount of profit, number of zombie machines used for
distribution, etc.

===
Kent: Mr. Simpson, how do you respond to the charges that petty
       vandalism such as graffiti is down eighty percent, while heavy
       sack-beatings are up a shocking nine hundred percent?
Homer: Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent.
       Forty percent of all people know that.
===

--Keith

Keith Young, Security Official
Department of Technology Services
Montgomery County, Maryland
phone - (240) 777-2955 

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