Australia's specialist antispam and antivirus email serivce provider Aliencamel.com has released the first detailed research into the source and location of transmission computers of spam email for Australian Internet email users.

The research conducted in October and December 2003 identified only 2.1% of spam emails capable of being caught by Australia's new antispam laws. The remaining 97.9% of spam emails involved transmission or carriage by computers external to Australia.

The analysis was also able to identify the location of email servers where the spam emails were transmitted. The United States was by far the most common location. Forty-five percent of the 11,568 host computers that spam email traversed were located in the US.

Table:                                         
Distribution of computers used to transmit spam
email to Australian users, Dec 2003, percent   

 Top-10 countries       % of total             
----------------------+-----------             
 United States        |      44.6              
 China                |       9.2              
 South Korea          |       5.0              
 Canada               |       4.8              
 Brazil               |       4.3              
 Great Britain        |       2.9              
 France               |       2.7              
 Japan                |       2.0              
 Netherlands          |       1.8              
 Germany              |       1.7              

source: aliencamel.com                         
sample: 10,143 emails; 11,568 computers        

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