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Nov 13, 2008, 04:48AM

Where's my penis enlargement ad?

The volume of spam emails worldwide dropped by nearly two-thirds yesterday after the servers for McColo Corp., a major spam hosting site, were taken offline.

The world saw a similar -- if short-lived -- drop in spam volumes in September, following the demise of Intercage, a.k.a, "Atrivo," another Northern California based ISP that security experts identified as a major source of badness online. In that case, it only took the spammers a few days to find a new home. It seems likely that the same will happen in this case as well, and that this minor victory will be short but sweet.

Read on.

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