Oh and here’s proof to you non-believers http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek
The article says the site was shutdown Tuesday and the graph has a dive the the end of Tuesday.

This is great!

Holy shit. This is big, monumentally big. It’s like a war just ended.

wow, with looking at the spamcop.net link i’m totally amazed. thank goodness for that!

i do wonder how long it will last for…

My local provider is very good filtering spam. 1-2 a week. But on Nov 12 I got over 10 spam messages.

but now how will I find out how to stimulate her deep pink grotto?

A take on Martin Niemöller’s poem,

“They came first for the spam servers, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t spamming;

And then they came for the “terror” servers, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a “terrorist”;

And then they came for the religious servers, And I didn’t speak up because I was agnostic;

And then . . . they came for my server . . . And by that time there were no sites left to speak up.”

Takeing down a hosting company because its customers break the law seems fine. Taking down a company because it serves people/sites you hate is very dangerous. The freedom that gives spammers the ability to operate also gives sites like this and yours the ability to operate.

@ Josh, spamming is a crime, jailable evenn

@ josh:

Doesn’t contract law cover this sort of thing?
We haven’t passed any US Network Neutrality legislation (yet). So, -assuming that they don’t have a contract that says otherwise- any network operator can legally cut off anyone else whenever they feel like, right?

The phishing sites will be back up as soon as they get their domains transferred. The armies of zombie spammers might be hit a little harder, but they’ll recover. The guys who build these networks are not stupid, I’d be really surprised if you can disable them by shutting down control servers belonging to a single host.

There will be little lasting effect.

Blizzarddemon:

I guess 9/11, Madrid, London, and Glasgow were all victims of fantasy terrorism.

I think that this really isn’t a solution because it just cut off the head to the spambots, the body (being zombie computers) need to be fixed. It doesn’t really matter if the people who were in control of the spambots had their internet disconnected because they’ll eventually find a new source and just reconnect to the zombie computers. If people really want a solution, they themselves need to take better care of their privacy because I’m sure there was a point in time where a computer you owned turned into a zombie.

In seemingly unrelated news, the economy of Nigeria has suffered a major setback, but the one bright spot is the funeral business due to the increase for wealthy widowed tourists.