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Wed Sep 8 17:23:01 UTC 2004

(oh oh spam talk on nanog ;)

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:29, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 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.

Making a promise is different from actually doing it...
With $2 million/month it is quite probably that someone will want to
have that business, thus it will just shift around, probably to some
sub-company not carrying the name "Savvis" anymore, "Spammis" is
probably then the better name ;)

> 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.

Exactly... just as long as some people get paid and don't get caught we
will use SpamAssasin and the various ingenious methods to avoid them ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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