Dictionary Attacks

[Andy Norris]

When we -- our little company -- talk about how many servers we'll 
need, it's just stupid that we have to consider spam filtering as the 
major load. Spammers cost everyone but themselves money.

How many of us on this list would have thought -- just five years ago 
-- that we'd be working part-time / full-time / ALL THE TIME just 
dealing with other people's junk mail?? Not really sure this is what 
I wanted to do with my life.

I was looking at the Worst Ten on the Spamhaus site last night, and 
had fantasies of a nature that I cannot put into words on a public forum. ;-)

Hey! Where's my beer?!



At 06:44 pm 2006-10-24, Peter Russell wrote:

>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.
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