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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Sep 8 12:29:46 2004
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:29:06 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
in <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3634572.stm> we see:
Campaigners against spam on the internet have won a major battle
against the world's second largest internet service provider.
US firm Savvis was allegedly earning up to $2 million a month from
148 of the world's worst spammers, a former employee had claimed.
Following talks with anti-spam groups, Savvis has now promised to get
rid of the spammers using its network.
...
i guess this is progress. the press keeps bleating about stopping spam
from being received -- perhaps if they start paying attention to how it
gets sent and how many supposedly-legitimate businesses profit from the
sending, there could be some flattening of the spam growth curve.
