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The global volume of junk e-mail went down by a double digit percentage on Tuesday, after web hosting company McColo Corp. was cut off from the internet. The company, located in Northern California, had been identified by security experts as a major host of spam operations.

Forget about net neutrality and torrent throttling, major ISPs are bringing up new issues to stir the public opinion. Verizon has unanimously limited access to Usenet for its subsribers, and three other big US internet providers reportedly announced plans to end unlimited access plans and switch to selling metered bandwidth.