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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:29:44PM +0100, Simon Avery wrote:If there's one thing that's changed in spam in the past few years, it's
> > It did hit a point where I took an active interest in reducing it by
> > adding to the troubles of those instigating it, and of course
> > increasing my efforts to persuade people not to host the spammers'
> > software of choice - Microsoft Windows.
>
> More than a few linux systems are compromised and churning out spam.
> Perhaps not as many as Windows, but it's by no means a Windows disease.
a shift towards spam sent from mostly compromised servers, almost all of
which run Linux. According to some figures, about half of today's spam
is sent through such servers.
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