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Apparently, security experts have been gathering information the past few months about a San Jose-based hosting company called McColo, only to discover it was responsible for coordinating roughly 75 percent of all spam sent each day. More seriously, the newspaper reports that the company was also hosting child pornography web sites for criminal organizations.
Enlisting ISPs in the battle against spam may prove successful for now, but the shutdown is not expected to affect the levels of spam in the long or even medium term, as the activities previously hosted by McColo are likely to be revived elsewhere. Bringing the people behind McColo and other similar operations to justice would make a bigger impact, though that’s certainly easier said than done.
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Haha! Thanks to whomever that figured this out. Spam is truly the bare core of evil.
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Wish somebody would shut down every spammer permanently. I get over 20,000 spams every month and constantly have to delete graphic porn stuff in a children's forum I moderate. Like, come up with a law making all spam illegal. Shutting down one company isn't going to have any effect at all.
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Yeah but you have to admit that it is a step in the right direction. It may be the start of a trend. Watch for more spam hosting companies being shut down.
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govt needs to focus on the war on spam, not silly gimmicks like "war on drugs".
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Hard to believe one single provider was pumping out that much spam and no one noticed. Look at this chart to see really how much less spam there is [url]http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek[/url]
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