Savvis’ spam double-speak

Savvis Communications catered to online e-mail marketing companies it suspected of sending out spam, even using “subversive business methods” to help spammers stay online after their Internet address was blacklisted, according to internal e-mail messages leaked to the Internet. A company executive said the St. Louis ISP was a victim of poor organization and internal communication about a mushrooming spam problem following the March 2004 acquisition of competitor Cable & Wireless, and is now taking steps to kick spammers off its network and mend fences with the anti-spam community. The e-mail messages appear on a Web site run by Alif Terranson, Savvis’ former manager of operations for the security engineering group, who was fired by Savvis in April because of disagreements with management over the company’s spam policy. http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0908leakmemos.html

Savvis Communications catered to online e-mail marketing companies it suspected of sending out spam, even using “subversive business methods” to help spammers stay online after their Internet address was blacklisted, according to internal e-mail messages leaked to the Internet. A company executive said the St. Louis ISP was a victim of poor organization and internal communication about a mushrooming spam problem following the March 2004 acquisition of competitor Cable & Wireless, and is now taking steps to kick spammers off its network and mend fences with the anti-spam community. The e-mail messages appear on a Web site run by Alif Terranson, Savvis’ former manager of operations for the security engineering group, who was fired by Savvis in April because of disagreements with management over the company’s spam policy.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0908leakmemos.html

The FCC has handed down interim unbundling rules that require incumbent telephone carriers to continue offering parts of their networks to competitors while the commission rewrites network-sharing policy. Until the agency creates new unbundling rules, the incumbent carriers must offer competing carriers their switching, enterprise market loops and dedicated transport under the rates in their June 15 interconnection agreements. The FCC plans to create new unbundling rules by the end of 2004, according to the order.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0820fccsets.html

Verizon has upped the speed of its DSL service to 3M bit/sec for businesses and consumers in 12 states. The new ADSL service offers a maximum connection speed of 3M bit/sec downstream and 768K bit/sec upstream, making it more competitive with cable modem service, which typically provides multimegabit-per-second throughput. Up to now, the highest downstream speed for Verizon’s DSL service was 1.5M bit/sec. The faster service is available now in 12 New England and mid-Atlantic states, and in the District of Columbia. Verizon plans to offer 3M bit/sec DSL service later this year in the remaining 11 states where it now offers 1.5M bit/sec service.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0907verdsl.html