> Question:  Do the spammers now have enough fire power to shutdown
> email by overloading servers with too many messages?

They can shut down anyone they choose.  They might even be able to shut
down everyone, though I suspect that that would tax even the botnets
enough that they couldn't keep it up more than briefly, and it would be
hard to _find_ "everyone" in the first place.

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