Comcast: ‘We’re The Biggest Spammer”

Comcast is trying to address the fact that its subscribers unwittingly send out hundreds of millions of spam e-mails each day.

“We’re the biggest spammer on the Internet,” Comcast network engineer Sean Lutner said at a meeting of an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week.

Lutner said Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere 100 million flow through the company’s official servers. Almost all of the remaining 700 million represent spam erupting from so-called zombie computers–a breathtaking figure that adds up to six or seven spam-o-grams for each American family every day.

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