According to some Internet news reports, McColo Corp., located in downton San Jose, California was shut down a few weeks ago when its two Internet backbone providers finally shut off their Internet backbone connection. McColo is a web hosting provider for many international organizations involved in spamming of everything from pornography to pharmaceuticals.
The two backbone providers are Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric. It's unclear if the FBI will be pursuing charges against McColo for being partially responsible for the billions of spam messages sent.
Reports from various Internet security agencies reported varying degrees of a drop in spam. One report showed an immediate 66% drop in unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and another report showed a decline from 40 spam messages/second down to 10/second.
No matter what the decline actually was, any decline is good news. It's about time.
To Your Success,
Tim