Does anyone have a similar experience that this past week or two there has
been (for me)
a four or 5 times increase in incoming spam?
It seems that is comes from what appears to be infected spambot machines,
worldwide?
Luckily my the declude and sniffer filters are capturing it, but it does
represent a bigger burden
on the mail server to process all of this and a nightmare if the filters
don't catch it.
The last few days have seen 10's of thousands of messages, most of which
have a pattern like this in the subject where the number keeps changing.
Dear 7457981e For You 65% OFF
and other things like USFinance blah blah with a number..
Any comments on how the email world is going to combat these zombie nets
since it's a virus and exploit problem?
Are all the security people working on the Olympics right now? Or is this a
huge new threat.
I cannot see keeping up with this in the coming years. Am I going to have to
migrate all my domains with 1000's of mailboxes over to gmail servers or
someone that has billions to spend on this?
Yah right (given the cesspool that yahoo has become?)
Despite premature predictions that spam would be the death of email, we've
kept
this crapware SMTP/rfc822 thing going for a decade or two, but sheesh, the
death of
email seems imminent if the spammers win, real soon now.
Comments?
Carl
J. Carl Wagar
EntreNet Communications Inc
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