E-mail traffic doubles after London bomb blasts
Dan Ilett writes in C|Net News:
E-mail traffic doubled in Europe on Thursday after four bombs exploded in central London.
A snapshot of e-mail activity from security company MessageLabs found the number of customer e-mails it monitored grew from the average of 500,000 to 1 million an hour after terrorist attacks began.
"Sometime after 9:00 a.m. BST (1 a.m. PDT) we saw e-mail traffic rise," said Alex Shipp, senior antivirus technologist for MessageLabs. "That's ignoring spam--that's half a million legitimate e-mails an hour up to 1 million.
"We don't know what the traffic is, but we're guessing that it's 'Are you OK?' and 'Have you seen the news?' messages. But that's based on the e-mails we've been getting."
eir phones following the attacks. All the United Kingdom's mobile phone networks were intermittently crippled by the sudden rise in calls and text messages early Thursday morning.
posted by Fergie @ 7/07/2005 09:42:00 AM
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