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?
Quoting Chris Santerre csante...@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?
Quoting d.h...@yournetplus.com: Quoting Chris Santerre csante...@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?
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?
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 ? :) -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Re: How was your holiday weekend spam traffic?
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?
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