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Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the crippling-a-land-down-under dept.

JohnPM writes "A sudden, sustained surge in traffic has slowed Australian email drastically over the past week. Spam and computer viruses are believed to be largely responsible."

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  1. This Just In by Bistronaut · · Score: 5, Funny

    UPDATE: Officials have tracked down the actual source of the problem. It turns out that Slashdot was linking to stories in the .au domain.

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  2. Re:Coincidence? by Sneftel · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Greetings. My name is Ngaba Umbele. I am the former finance minister of, um, Australia....."

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  3. Serves them right! by docbrown42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If they would have installed the patch that MS has been emailing to EVERYONE , they wouldn't have this problem!

    By the way: has anyone noticed Windows being particularly unstable recently? (More than usual)
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