A Victory for Your Inbox and Mine
At one point in 2007, I read a C-Net article that stated over 90 percent of the e-mail traffic on the net was spam. I really do believe this is true. I work for a hosting provider, and spam is a menace to our operations every day. It makes me wish we could find the people responsible, and aparently, some of them have been. This Washington Post Article has details about McColo, a hosting provider that was aparently a major spam source, being taken off the map. Good Riddance!
I didn’t learn about this until several days after the fact, and I can vouch for the spam being reduced afterwards. We spam filter all of our e-mail hosting customers domains at the place I work, and some of them recieve 300-400 messages per day per mailbox. It can be hundreds of thousands of spam mails a day that are caught by our filters. I wouldn’t say it’s down by half, but its definately a noticable decrease this week. I’ve actually seen the mail filter for one of our larger servers running at less than 20% cpu at times, which is unheard of for us.
Way to go, internet cops!