I also have seen my spam increase drasticly the past months. TF is helping,
but causing other problems with much needed mail being trashed as well. Of
course this needed mail by my customers is always some BS automated mailing
service or something non-standard.
Is there a link I can send my customers to, so that they can read up on this
bad industry problem?
Right now they are just hearing it from my own words. I would like some as
it were verification that there truly is a problem going on for all ISP's
-Kerry


At 07:46 PM 10/29/03 +0100, you wrote:
>Post scriptum :
>1. More precisely, the average inlog file size has tripled on october 6th,
>2003
>2. This might be the period I started having smtprcv stopping once or twice
>a day
>Benoit
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Benoit Sarton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:35 PM
>Subject: inlog files filled with err 550
>
>
>| I'm getting more than 10000 spams sent at fake adresses every day
>| ( looks like they are pseudo-randomly generated )
>|  One inlog file is more than 4 Mo per day, when it was 200/300k a month
>ago.
>| I had to hack a small program to tell the hit-parade of the source ip or
>| class C ( since visual analysis is not possible any more), but there is a
>| large dispersion of theses sources.
>| For example, for today at  7pm I get this :
>| logs : 8337
>| Err 550 from 195.188.213.0/32 : 200
>| Err 550 from 194.25.134.0/32   : 196
>| Err  550 from 195.228.242.0/32: 179
>| etc
>|
>| I'm wondering if this is a kind of virus, or 'brute force spam' trying to
>| reach a real adress once every 1000 tries, or both ?
>|
>| Strangely all fake adresses have similar patterns, such as name_<two
>random
>| letters>@domain
>| For example :
>| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>| etc
>| do you suffer the same problem, with a recent acceleration these last 20
>| days ?
>|
>| Benoit
>|
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