Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)

[J.A. Terranson]

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/0,108
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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J.A. Terranson
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