Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)

[Tyler Durden]

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 at mfn.org>
>To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pobox.com>
>CC: cypherpunks at 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/0,108
>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
>
>--
>Yours,
>
>J.A. Terranson
>sysadmin at mfn.org
>0xBD4A95BF
>
>   "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do
>   not.  And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out
>   about them."      Osama Bin Laden
>	- - -
>
>   "There aught to be limits to freedom!"    George Bush
>	- - -
>
>Which one scares you more?

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