To Florida WebmasterWorld Members

Hurricane Frances

[zulufox]

Well, it looks like we are gonna get it again...

As always,
Good luck,
Be Safe,
Backup Your Data.

Chris from Miami FL

[danieljean]

Ivan does indeed seem terrible. Unless its intensity diminishes very fast, it is going to be much worse for Florida than Frances was. Grenada is still counting its dead.

So many massive hurricanes in such a short period really has me wondering whether we've messed something up in our climate :(

[billygg]

[webmasterworld.com...]

here is the hurricane ivan post that i started, it doesnt really matter, but, someone had asked about it. jamaica should be seeing the full effects as of midnight tonight, i pray for everyone there!

[Stefan]

U.S. Hurricanes Cooked Spam Briefly

Miami FL (UPI) Oct 4, 2004
Perhaps the only benefit from four hurricanes that hit Florida in the last two months is that spam e-mail fell by 10 percent, The Mirror reported Monday.

Cyberspace experts said the fall of gambling and pornography offers was no doubt related to massive power outages.

There are probably only 200 spammers in the world and most of them are in Florida, said Paul Wood, of the anti-spam firm MessageLabs,

However, spammers appear to be matching the general recovery rate in the battered state, said Steve Linford of the spam watch group, Spamhaus.

There are 35 billion e-mails a day and 85 percent are spam, he said. After the hurricanes, that fell to around 75 percent but we're now seeing it climb again very steeply.

[MatthewHSE]

I take full credit for noticing [webmasterworld.com] the decrease first! ;)

(Though it seemed at the time I was the only one who did experience a decrease . . . but it was way more than 10%, too.)

[Stefan]

Hey, sorry Matthew... I should have posted that item in the other thread, (hadn't noticed it).