The SPAM Generation. US is fourth behind China, Brazil, and Turkey.

Not a race to first place. This from Technology Review reveals where the bulk of the mess comes from. It's a crying shame we don't have better control over this.

....Makes me think of a Monty Python song. (See Below!)

The comments thread had a few good nuggets, too ...

Education Shiladie on 05/29/2008 at 1:05 PM

The number one reason these things spread like they do is people being completely ignorant about the internet. These are the people who are the reasons spam is so prolific: People who: 1. use the 'To:' field 2. click links (ANY LINKS) in an email 3. run windows and don't keep an up-to-date anti-virus on it (there are many free ones!) 4. reply to spam 5. have unsecure passwords (12345, password, nascar, jesus) Currently there are multiple bot-nets that are orders of magnitude more powerful then the world's largest supercomputers, and it won't stop unless people plain and simple smarten up.