Dictionary Attacks

[Peter Russell]

Mike Kercher wrote:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <> scribbled on :
> 
> 
>> My frustration with the deluge of spam of late has gotten to
>> the point that I'm fairly convinced I will stop the spam
>> filtering on the domain of the next user that bitches to me
>> about the spam they're getting. Then they can see what spam
>> they've *not* been getting.
>>
> 
> I've done that before.  And if they're REALLY pissy, I'll change my
> config to forward them ALL of the spam for other domains as well.  They
> come crawling back in no time.
> 
> Mike

This is a big problem for me at the moment. I am under attack from users 
more than spammers. At the momement there is a lot of negative talk 
about the solution we use (MS, SA, MW) because they are getting the 
stock picture spam, and we stop 1 in 10000 as false positives.

Is there any reported info on the web i can use to illustrate that there 
is a world wide increase in the volume of spam, spammers have far more 
resources than we do etc etc?

Our volume of spam has more than quadrupled in the past 5 months.