John Biggs
TechCrunch.com
Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:23 AM

A group of Internet providers have essentially shut down California hosting service, McColo, yesterday and total spam production dropped considerably. The provider, notorious for their low-down ways, was producing 2/3 of the spam in the U.S. Other providers saw a drop from about 40 spam messages per second to 10 per second - a major victory for those whose m3mb3rz are already rock solid.