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    Junk e-mail drops after providers disconnect a California firm

    Spam host blocked from Net - Washington Post

    The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online.
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    good riddance. Don't need spam clogging up the tubes when people are trying to get their pr0n.


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    AT+T customers probably don't want to use up much of their paltry bandwidth allocation downloading spam either.

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    Awesome.


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    I found it interesting that this site was a web hosting site, not a spammer site. I guess they catered to hosting spammers. If so, doesn't that mean that they would have to know what resided on their servers and if so, aren't they resposible to police those accounts. I understand part of it was kiddy pr0n. I know they can be charged if they knew that was there.
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