Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic

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."

Comments

Re:Who pays for it?

[zcat_NZ]

Aussies pay probably the highest rates in the developed world for traffic already. Sucks to be them :)

New Zealand is slightly better, but for decent ADSL (full speed, not 128K) we pay 15c-18c per meg.

It really pisses me off when I read stories on /. about the poor, deprived cable modem users who aren't allowed to do >1G per day on kaaza any more. My 128K adsl has a 12G per month cap and most months I don't even reach half that, even after downloading a few ISO's, the occasional movie, and a healthy amount of pr0n.

actually, Telstra broke their mail software

[danny]

See this story from Friday, BigPond e-mail slow down fixed.

Telstra has revealed the reason for the e-mail delays many of its customers have experienced over the last two weeks.

Some BigPond customers have experienced diminished incoming mail performance, with messages often being delayed by several hours or more. Telstra spokesperson Kerrina Lawrence told ZDNet Australia the problem was with a software upgrade recently implemented by Telstra.

I know spam is a problem, but I'm not convinced it's become any worse in the last few weeks - it may just make a convenient scapegoat to distract from Telstra's screwups.

Danny.