Savvis Grudgingly Get Savvy About Spam

ElvenMonkey writes "The BBC is reporting that Savvis has finally promised to ditch those accounts that are using its network to send spam, in an effort to reduce the damage already done against its reputation; the CEO promises that all such accounts will be closed within 10 days (working days?) Amongst these accounts are believed to be the majority of the top 150 worst spammers worldwide."

Comments

Great

[Nos.]

now how am I going to know:

• If I am preapproved for a mortgage
• Where to get cheap drugs
• Where I can buy software for 1/10 of the normal price
• etc

Re:Great

[ricotest]

• You aren't, stay at your parents' house for now
• Ask your son
• Suprnova
• It's a UNIX options directory.

Re:Great

[antifoidulus]

You forgot the most important part, how are you now going to know when a very obscure but very weatlhy relative of yours who was living in Africa dies? What kind of monsters would take that news away from me?

But the money was so tasty

[Anonymous Coward]

They're just upset to get rid of those tasty, money making, high-bandwidth using spam accounts.

Capitalism In Full Flower

[ackthpt]

the CEO promises that all such accounts will be closed within 10 days (working days?) Amongst these accounts are believed to be the majority of the top 150 worst spammers worldwide."

In related news the CEO said, "To make up for the lost revenue, we'll host pr0n. We'll be actively competing with GoatSex Guy."

Re:Capitalism In Full Flower

[gstoddart]

in related news the CEO said, "To make up for the lost revenue, we'll host pr0n. We'll be actively competing with GoatSex Guy."

I refuse to belive that guy could possibly be generating revenue from that site.

If anything, I'm sure he's paying through his ass for bandwidth. (Oh, sorry, couldn't resist.)

=)

Re:Capitalism In Full Flower

[Mateito]

We'll be actively competing with GoatSex Guy

Please explain (without diagrams!) the GoatSex guy's business model.

Re:Capitalism In Full Flower

[Snowdog668]

My first thought on this was, well, there's people out there that will pay to see just about anything.

My second thought was, what was the first /. user that actually found that site actually looking for? Maybe I just haven't been around long enough but was the first link to the site a bit of self-promotion on the part of the webmaster or did one of our own actually stumble across it? If someone found it I'd hate to see the Google search that brought up that result. :)

Damn it!

[cbrocious]

Right on the day my emails for spam-blocking software were going out. Foiled again...

how terrible

[RevKa]

I was just starting to enjoy my corrspondence to that poor cancer ridden Zimbabwean, who happens to be trapped in space!

Savvis to later announce..........

[ARRRLovin]

......a 75% decrease in network traffic.

Shortchanged?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who's gonna remind me that I might have been shortchanged by nature?

Re:Truth about Savvis

[Anonymous Coward]

WARNING: Parent post goes to a web page that uses the blink tag.

Re:ePorn is very profitable

[rf0]

If a Porn site is down then the money they lose is huge. They are happy to pay to keep it up

Rus

Re:ePorn is very profitable

[gordyf]

They are happy to pay to keep it up

*cough*.

Not quite

[Anonymous Coward]

The actual saying is: if you steal one penny you are a thief. If you steal one billion you are in big trouble unless someone burns the building down.

Re:Burn Savvis 'crops', Salt Their Fields!

[Anonymous Coward]

Savvis is the Enron/Worldcom of the Internet!

Since Worldcom owns MCI & UUNet, wouldn't Worldcom be the Worldcom of the Internet?

Re:Burn Savvis 'crops', Salt Their Fields!

[the chao goes mu]

Wasn't Worldcom the "worldcom of the internet"?

Quelle surprise

[Anonymous Coward]

I personally have complete confidence in Savvis

Spammer likes spam-friendly ISP. Hardly earth-shattering news.

Agis is an acronym

[NoSuchGuy]

Agis = All You Get Is Spam