ISP awarded $1 billion in anti-spam lawsuit

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ISP awarded $1 billion in anti-spam lawsuit

Post by Pigman » Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:21 am

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6732329/

Small provider received up to 10 million e-mails per day

DAVENPORT, Iowa - A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers
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Post by bio » Sun Dec 19, 2004 11:59 am

I want a piece of that.

Before we set my server to dump mail addressed to non active addresses into /dev/null/ (aka, the bit bucket), I would have, on average, about 3,500 mails floating around in the queue at all times.

I don't have all the statistics but it's a safe bet that I recieve over 10,000 spams per day on this box. That's a lot of bandwidth.
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