Subject: Re: Spam levels down due to one Russian site shutting down.
Newsgroups: can.internet.highspeed
From: Steve <Steve@london.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:47:16 -0400
JF Mezei wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/business/27spam.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimesglobal
>
> Spam messages may have been reduced by 20% in the last couple of weeks.
>
> Russians announce a criminal investigation of a spam kingpin Igor A.
> Gusev. he has now fled Russia..
>
> SmapIt.com stopped operating on Sept 27. At the time, the reasons were
> not clear, but it coincided with police action. (In teh past it was felt
> Russian police tolerated spammers).
>
Old JF and that dam pesky foreskin.