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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. 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.