[Info-vax] Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[JF Mezei]

On 13-11-30 20:21, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Yes.  100% sure.  Don't confuse Production Servers with Granny's Windows
> ME box.

A lot of people, desktop and servers are still on XP. This is a huge
problem because the original XP was wide open to attract viruses/botnets
etc. And there are still millions of those boxes around.


> Don;t blame MIcrosoft.  Brazilian ISPs openly support SPAMMERS.  The
> quickest way to get lots of Portugese language SPAM is to join any
> mailing list hosted out of Brazil.  I know this first hand.  Luckily
> because it is in a foreign language it is really easy to filter.

Not sure where the spammers are located. But the invected Windows boxes
are often in Brazil, acting as part of the cluster (botnet) which sends
email controlled by the outfit making money from this endeavour.

> Of course, you have to wonder how truly stupid they are wasting time
> sending SPAM to Americans in any language other than English.


They are getting fairly smart. I get spam from different countries in
the world (as per the Received from: header) targetted to me as a
canadian living in Québec. Often in french, and for canadian banks.
Having a .ca email address does help them target the spam to me.