By Jon Herskovitz
> Ships set sail on Friday to mend cables damaged by earthquakes off
> Taiwan that cut communication in Asia, while companies found new
> routes for their data to flow to prevent another disruption.
> Service was back to normal on the last business day of the year with
> telecoms companies securing new routes via land and satellite to
> restore communication -- ending outages that affected banks and
> brokerages from Seoul to Sydney.
That's why there was a brief hiatus of spam in my inbox. I kept wondering why it dropped from a volume of over 100 per day to less than
3 per day.