Telstra has kicked another BigPond user off its network after a two day spam campaign by the customer caught the attention of ISPs.
As spam becomes the number one issue concerning Internet users ISPs are beginning to cash in on the trend, offering spam and virus filtering services for a fee.
Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.
Columnist Josh Mehlman suggests that anti-spammers treat spam prevention as a real job, not a crusade; do it professionally, openly, and most of all, fairly.
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