[ga] Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  More FUD from Spamhaus...  It's amazing to me that anyone
would believe such nonsense.

See:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/0D57068854E92584CC2572060013C0EF

and
 http://taint.org/2006/10/09/174640a.html

"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."

Regards,

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