Authorities pull the plug on major source of internet spam

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That's what they're sayin' anyhow:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...id=topnews

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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

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I hope they're right. I have been getting fewer spam emails in the last few days.

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with gmail, spam is a thing of the past - I haven't seen a spam in months

[SteveO]

I'm getting a ton of spam in Cyrllic these days. No idea what is up with that!

[Dick Moore]

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......

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I was getting the Cyrillic stuff too--50 a day or so. It has stopped now, so maybe that raid was the real deal.

[JoeH]

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.