Massive spam run this weekend

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:29:58AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >And, BTW, there were over 29,800 items caught by my filters over the weekend.
> 
> Sounds about right.  There was a fairly massive botnet spam run within the
> last month forging one of our support addresses (which are completely
> unfiltered so we can get spam reports :-).  There was lots of blowback.

Joe-job backscatter and outscatter have been substantially higher than
usual the last month or so; we had a thread on mailop about it last
week.

Cheers,
-- jra
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