-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Christopher L. Morrow Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:57 PM To: Rich Kulawiec Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Verizon wins MCI

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Rich Kulawiec wrote:

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On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 11:38:10PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:

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But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was?

<chuckle> Well, by one metric, they're #1:

Rank ISP Number of

currently-listed spam issues

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--- --- -------------------------------------- 1 mci.com 193 2 kornet.net 164 3 sbc.com 119 4 comcast.net 100 5 xo.com 78 6 above.net 75 7 crc.net.cn 68 8 verizon.net 67 9 level3.net 64 10 interbusiness.it 56

(from the Spamhaus top ten list (http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics.lasso))

we aim to please? or was there some hidden meaning to your email/troll?

I think he was acknowledging that SPAM control falls in the front office these days and most of us have little control over revenue decisions. SPAM is traffic. That's all it ever will be. [No, I hate spam. I'm a realist ] -M<