Re: Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)
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 CW 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=4985alloc_id=10663site_id=1request_id=1806376 -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)
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 CW 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.
Re: Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 CW 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=4985alloc_id=10663site_id=1request_id=1806376 -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement
Re: Savvis dropping major spammers (cypherpunk sighting.)
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: 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, Um, yeah They even forgot to pay the renewal for their domain name around two years ago! Now *that* was funny! so I bet they need that Spam revenue. That exec probably needed that revenue in order to qualify for some absurd bonus. That is *precisely* how it works. No makie the numbers, no takeee the $500,000.00 (really) annual bonus. -TD -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
