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Hurricanes Affecting Spammers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the show-me-the-proof dept.

Ant writes "According to BusinessWeek Online's article, Lots of folks think the hurricane hits in Florida, the Sunshine (and Spam!) State have taken slowed the volume of spam." I've not noticed any decrease.

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  1. Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria! by garcia · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the blurb:
    I've not noticed any decrease.

    From the article:
    But daily results posted by MessageLabs, Earthlink (ELNK), and Symantec (SYMC) showed little correlation.

    And neither has anyone else. It was only a single institution that claimed their weekly spam traffic was down 100 million messages. The article mentions that two top 10 spammers remained in the top 10 even during the storms. They even (hopefully) jokingly claim it was a heroic effort.