Hi: If you're wondering why the Net has been slow, WorldCom Inc. acknowledged this morning that a network problem in its Internet backbone was tripping up Web traffic across the country. On a consultants list I am on we discussed how scary it is that **HALF** the US Internet traffic is being carried by a company now in bankruptcy.
One of the list members posted this ... On the other hand, I'd be perfectly happy to see WorldCom shut down. They're the largest source of spam in North America, and tied with China as the largest source of spam in the world. See: http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics.lasso and http://www.spamhaus.org/newsdog.lasso?article=108 Note that each *one* of the spam operations listed represents an organized gang of spammers, each operating a significant number of domains, and selling both spamware and lists of email addresses. The damage that such gangs can inflict is fairly amazing. Note also that WorldCom explicitly decided, several years ago, to knowingly permit this. (See second URL above.) Although most of the spam coming from China really isn't: it's being shoved through open relays there but originating elsewhere. FWIW George _______________________________________________________ George Matyjewicz GAP Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.gapent.com/ Book Author and Doctoral Candidate in Training Moderator of E-Tailer's Digest http://www.etailersdigest.com/ Automated Press Releases http://www.automatedpr.com/ Marketing Your Web http://www.gapent.com/myweb/ Board Member AIB #34 http://www.aib-world.org/ --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
