Simon Lyall
I was under the impression that the few number of NZ ISPs, the lack of stupid Australian type laws and the fact that all NZ ISPs were fairly effeciect with fixing spamming customers meant that NZ spammers were pretty much under control.
I read the article that the spammers don't use their Jetstart accounts directly for the spamming (well, maybe "^god" does), but use servers elsewhere. "The overheads are minimal. Captain Bob pays about $300 a month to maintain his server. He runs a Jetstart account ($65) to connect to his server which in turn connects to a high-capacity pipe out to the web." Out to the Web? Not to mail servers? Even so, why would anyone hire NZ spammers as opposed to say US ones? The majority of spam refers back to the US, and I can't imagine there being a shortage of spammers over there. Are they cheaper here, or is there some other reason? -- Juha