Re: More Subpoenas in Suit Over Obscenity Law

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Is it just me, or do other readers

> agree there is a _huge_ amount -- more than even a year or two ago -- > of pornography on the net.

No, I don't. Indeed, I very rarely see any, unless I go out of my way to look for it.

Much, much more than there was even two or three years ago.

No, definitely not.

If the amount and nature of the spam we receive is any indication, > there is _much more_ p*rn around also.

I don't see that in my spam either.

I made a quick survey of the 84 messages currently in my spam box. The breakdown is as follows:

24 finance, mostly pump&dump stock scams 15 entirely in a non-English language 9 consisting of "confuser" text and a GIF image (possible p*rn?) 8 advertising drugs (including ED drugs) 5 ads for diploma mills 4 completely unidentifiable (e.g., just a random URL) 4 419 scams 4 pirated software 4 offering credit (phishing attempts?) 2 complaints sent to the wrong abuse desk 1 advertisement for a sex toy 1 ad for judgment processing (pyramid scheme?) 1 ad for an art gallery 1 ad for a Chinese manufacturing company eager to sell me widgets 1 "backscatter" bounce message for spam sent to someone else

(I then deleted the contents of the spam box wholesale, of course.)

So in the category of "p*rn" or things potentially related thereto, I see at most 14 out of 84 messages or 17%. This seems to be substantially more that what I see regularly on the Web, although it's hard to generate hard numbers when only the big search providers have the databases. (There's actually an interesting theory problem here. Given a map of the link structure of the Web, such as that used in approximate form by the search engines, you can consider the average path length of a random walk before it enters the "p*rn zone". My intuition is that there are many connected subgraphs which have no out-links closer to the "p*rn zone" than the average for all sites, and that most unintentional access to p*rn sites involves either searching for it or mistyping URLs. Has anyone done this research yet?)

-GAWollman

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