In perhaps its greatest service to the public since Watergate, the Washington Post WashingtonPost.com’s work resulted in this:
A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was responsible for facilitating more than 75 percent of the junk e-mail blasted out each day globally has been knocked offline following reports from [WashingtonPost.com blog] Security Fix on evidence gathered about criminal activity emanating from the network.
I think I’m only slightly exaggerating the good involved, here.