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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. Coincidence? by robogun · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article does not mention the amount of outbound spam from Australia. Which I have been getting a lot of lately. In fact, come to think of it, exactly in the time frame mentioned in the article.

    1. Re:Coincidence? by __aavhli5779 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I hate to point out that there's at least a bit of irony in Telstra whining about spam bogging down their mail servers.

      Though they're definitely not on the level of a true spamhaus, Telstra has been observed over the last few years protecting spammers on their network, including moving IP assignments for said customers to avoid blocklists.

      What I can't say is whether pink contracts at Telstra are particularly more rife than, say, those at AT&T, another notorious abuse-ignorant ISP.