Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

$350,000 a month buys you a lot of spam servers

Opinion
Sep 14, 20061 min

$350,000 a month buys you a lot of spam servers
  Do you think the Associated Press editors were being cute with this headline or they didn’t even notice what they wrote: Australian Man Probed Over Viagra Spam Eww. The story is actually pretty interesting, detailing the arrest of a man accused of sending 2 billion spam messages in one year. Authorities say he rented 35 servers for $10,000 a month – each – to do the dirty work. Via My Way News