Spam in China

BusinessWeek () describes a "study" that is suppose to show that by far the majority of spam, under which all of us suffer, is originating from webhosting companies in China. A company called Commtouch Software says that they tried to trace "the location of destination sites advertised in spam". They survey 300,000 messages and found that 71% of the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for them were based in China. Explanation? It is cheap to host websites in China and the government, mostly pretty rigid in clamping down on undesirable content, has problems keeping up with the growth development.