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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Chris Santerre <cs...@MerchantsOverseas.com> on 2009/11/30 16:08:53 UTC
How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty big
rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday weekend. Did
someone get arrested or something?
I'm not fully awake yet but it looks like my blocking numbers from RBLs
tripled over weekend.
--Chris
Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
Posted by Alex <my...@gmail.com>.
Hi,
> I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty big
> rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday weekend. Did
> someone get arrested or something?
>
> I'm not fully awake yet but it looks like my blocking numbers from RBLs
> tripled over weekend.
Can I ask how you are measuring that information? Is it a script or
just a grep through your mail logs? It just implied that you had a
history to compare with, and I was curious about that.
Thanks,
Alex
Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
Posted by Benny Pedersen <me...@junc.org>.
On man 30 nov 2009 16:08:53 CET, Chris Santerre wrote
> I'm not fully awake yet but it looks like my blocking numbers from RBLs
> tripled over weekend.
what RBLs are you on ? :)
--
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Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
Posted by Thomas Harold <th...@nybeta.com>.
On 11/30/2009 10:08 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
> I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty
> big rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday
> weekend. Did someone get arrested or something?
>
> I'm not fully awake yet but it looks like my blocking numbers from RBLs
> tripled over weekend.
I haven't looked at what we blocked (we don't block on RBLs at SMTP
time). We only block at SMTP time for SMTP servers with bogus or
non-resolving HELOs.
But looking at the amount of messages that made it past that and scored
8.0 or higher I'm not seeing much variation. Thursday was a bit light.
Friday was about the same as the previous Friday. Saturday was the
same as the previous Saturday. Sundays are always quiet (comparatively).
Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
Posted by d....@yournetplus.com.
Quoting d.hill@yournetplus.com:
> Quoting Chris Santerre <cs...@MerchantsOverseas.com>:
>
>> I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty big
>> rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday weekend. Did
>> someone get arrested or something?
>>
>> I'm not fully awake yet but it looks like my blocking numbers from RBLs
>> tripled over weekend.
>
> Same here. I've seen an increase in the number of rejections based
> on greet_pause. Ironically, it was extensively discussed on the
> SPAM-L list over the holiday weekend.
Sorry I didn't clarify. The *use* of greet_pause was extensively discussed.
Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
Posted by d....@yournetplus.com.
Quoting Chris Santerre <cs...@MerchantsOverseas.com>:
> I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty big
> rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday weekend. Did
> someone get arrested or something?
>
> I'm not fully awake yet but it looks like my blocking numbers from RBLs
> tripled over weekend.
Same here. I've seen an increase in the number of rejections based on
greet_pause. Ironically, it was extensively discussed on the SPAM-L
list over the holiday weekend.
Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
Posted by Blaine Fleming <gr...@digital-z.com>.
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Chris Santerre wrote:
> I'm just curious this morning. I see a dip in spam trapped, but a pretty
> big rise in blocking. I expected a lot worse over the long holiday
> weekend. Did someone get arrested or something?
Since last Wednesday I show about a 25% reduction in my spamtraps but a
30% increase in delivery attempts to my actual mail servers. First
glance looks like the botnets slowed down but the snowshoe picked up.
This might warrant further investigation...
- --Blaine
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