OT: Have You Noticed Something Similar

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Stockler (Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:09:43 -0400):

> I use SpamAssassin as my SPAM filter, and it deposits what it
> recognizes as such in in the mailbox ~bob/Mail/spam.
>
> I've been accustomed to finding as many as 40 or more emails
> in it most mornings, but recently the numbers have dropped.
>
> This morning there were only 8 (and none got by my filter).
>
> Are the spammers slowly beginning to find that it's a useless
> exercise?

Just a quick followup to my previous "no" answer.

Between midnight and 9AM this morning, I got 793 spams that made it
through my filters.  My daily "held mail" report (which gives the
"from" and "subject" of everything that was caught and placed into
my held mail folder) is over 1.5MB.  A quick "wc" on the file shows
that there are over 13,000 items listed as caught in the past 24
hours.

Now, admittedly, I don't usually get anywhere near this amount, but
it looks like a major spam run was done overnight, and many by newly
trojanned systems.

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