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Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - Gutenberg - 11-12-2008
That's what they're sayin' anyhow:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111200658.html?hpid=topnews
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - kj4btkljv - 11-12-2008
And a snippet:
The gleaming, state-of-the-art, 30-story office tower in downtown San Jose, Calif., hardly looks like the staging ground for a full-scale cyber crime offensive against America. But security experts say a relatively small Web hosting firm at that location is home to servers that help manage the distribution of the majority of the world's junk e-mail.
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May they burn in hell.
Jeff
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - Gutenberg - 11-12-2008
I hope they're right. I have been getting fewer spam emails in the last few days.
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - hal - 11-12-2008
with gmail, spam is a thing of the past - I haven't seen a spam in months
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - SteveO - 11-13-2008
I'm getting a ton of spam in Cyrllic these days. No idea what is up with that!
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - Dick Moore - 11-13-2008
Cyrillic spam -- yes, a lot, well, a lot for me, two or three a day on average. I can't figure out how they found me. I studied Russian for a while but I can't figure any of it out, not that I'm trying too hard......
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - Gutenberg - 11-13-2008
I was getting the Cyrillic stuff too--50 a day or so. It has stopped now, so maybe that raid was the real deal.
Re: Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam - JoeH - 11-13-2008
Good for most, but I guess the spammers who have my email addresses did not go through them. I have actually seen an increase in the "Canadian Rx" spam to the verizon.net email address I only give out to a few.