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.
