From the Globe and Mail:
After labouring under the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s major sources of spam, Canada has finally fallen off the list of the “Dirty Dozen” nations sending spam.
The new list, released Thursday by SophosLabs, a security company based in Lynnfield, Mass., shows that for the first quarter of this year, Canada had cut its spam output by more than half, accounting for only 1.25 per cent of the worldwide spam output. For the last quarter in 2005, Canada accounted for 3 per cent of the total output and ranked fifth on the list of offending countries.
The list counts those countries where computers send spam, not those countries where the spam originated. Much spam is relayed, via compromised computers in homes and businesses around the world, which have been remotely instructed to send the messages.