Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus

Rub3X writes, "The legal battle between antispam organization Spamhaus and e360 Insight is heating up. Spamhaus has a user base of around 650 million, and its lists block some fifty billion spam emails per day, according to the project's CEO Steve Linford. Spamhaus CIO Richard Cox says the immediate issue is that if the domain is suspended, the torrent of bulk mail hitting the world's mail servers would cause many of them to fail. More than 90% of of all email is now spam, Cox says, and he doubts that servers worldwide would be able to handle a ten-fold increase in traffic." Others estimate Spamhaus's blocking efficacy as closer to 75%; by this metric spam would increase four-fold, not ten-fold, if Spamhaus went unavailable. The article paraphrases CIO Cox as saying that the service will continue "even if there is a short-term degradation."

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Re:I say let the spam come

[ConceptJunkie]

Replying to myself, blah, blah, blah...

I should have said "much greater than 99.99% participation".

Hey, /., would it kill you to join the 21st century and let us edit our posts?

p.s. It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment

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No, chances are I'm an intelligent person who can type fast, but /. will never consider that. Believe it or not, guys, we can compose a meaningful posting in less than 2 minutes. Please stop punishing good typists.