I see Savvis has a sales office in a Building I used to work in here in NYC. They also seem to be be somewhat deadbeat-ish with respect to paying some of their bills, so I bet they need that Spam revenue. That exec probably needed that revenue in order to qualify for some absurd bonus. -TD
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> CC: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:45:52 -0500 (CDT)
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Bill Stewart wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3634572.stm
John Young and John Gilmore aren't the only cypherpunks in the news lately. J. Alif Terranson was in a BBC article about getting the company to agree to drop the hundred or so major spammers who've been using their network.
Some of them are former C&W customers, some are new, and they've been estimated to be about $2M/month business for Savvis, so this is a non-trivial step for Savvis. On the other hand, Savvis risked getting its whole network blacklisted by the major spam anti-spam groups if it didn't do something.
We'll see if they follow through.
The actual memos are at http://www.savvis.info
Other articles (mostly with greater detail) include:
http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0908leakmemos.html http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/isptelecom/story/0... 01,95769,00.html http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040908-4168.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3634572.stm http://techdirt.com/articles/20040908/103247.shtml http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4985&alloc_id=10663&site_id=1&request_id=1806376
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