RE: [sniffer] Excess spam over the weekend

2004-12-27 Thread Chuck Schick
Jim:

We saw just the opposite.  The amount of Spam appeared to be down over the
holiday weekend.  We saw less total volume and less spam in the spam traps.

Chuck Schick
Warp 8, Inc.
(303)-421-5140
www.warp8.com
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Subject: [sniffer] Excess spam over the weekend


Is anyone else seeing a huge flood of spam over the weekend?  I have
received a ton of it since Friday, a lot of it is not being picked up by
sniffer either.  

Jim Matuska Jr.
Computer Tech2, CCNA
Nez Perce Tribe
Information Systems
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Re: [sniffer] Excess spam over the weekend

2004-12-27 Thread Pete McNeil
On Monday, December 27, 2004, 10:24:00 AM, Jim wrote:

JM> Is anyone else seeing a huge flood of spam over the 
JM> weekend?  I have received a ton of it since Friday, a lot of it is
JM> not  being picked up by sniffer either.  

I believe I can explain this phenomena.
Over weekends and holidays folks stop submitting spam to us, so the
only things we can tag are those that hit our spamtraps. I've notices
quite a drop in the amount of spam we've been receiving - though the
filter rate and volume at our servers is still very high (filtering
90+% of 35K/day - very little monitored spam getting through).

I'm looking for some ways to increase the breadth of our spamtraps so
that this cyclic drop can be mitigated...

_M




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