Sudden dropoff in volume of spam

Alex Neuman alex at nkpanama.com
Fri Apr 9 05:58:35 IST 2004


I drop a lot more mail now before the scanning phase since I started using
Spamhaus' combined sbl+xbl list.

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Subject: Re: Sudden dropoff in volume of spam


Michael St. Laurent wrote on         Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:40:45 -0700:

> I've noticed a relatively sudden reduction in the amount of spam being 
> received by our company this week.  Has anyone else noticed this 
> trend?
>

yes, what seems to have dropped rapidly for at least two days is the amount
of spam which makes it in the scanning phase. Which means in our case that
most spam is already caught by the RBL and access list. It's almost like 99%
while it usually is around 80% or so. Either the used RBL got a lucky push
or machines not on these lists stopped spamming. Maybe they are on a long
Easter weekend?


Kai

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