Re: [IMail Forum] Spam volume down?

[Adam Greene]

Robert,

The decrease you're seeing may be due to a new feature Postini rolled out on
April 29 called sublenient spam blocking (SSB). They're now identifying
certain types of spam as absolutely positively no-doubt-about-it spam and
simply deleting it rather than quarantining it. I've noticed a 75% reduction
in the amount of quarantined spam I receive. There's probably more info on
their website if you think this might be related to what you're seeing.

Best.
Adam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Robert Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam volume down?


> Hi,
>
> Lucky you :-)
>
> Here in Switzerland the spam increases daily. The origin is mostly from
the usa...
>
>
> ====================================
> Am Montag, 7. Juni 2004 um 19:00 schrieben Sie:
>
> > To see if we are losing traffic, would you guys give me a hand and
anyone
> > that has time, send a test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and cc
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]  One goes through postini, one doesn't.  If
> > there's a difference between the two accounts, I'm losing mail
somewhere.
>
> > Yes, I know there's a lot of you out there, but that should make the
test
> > even more valid.
>
> > Robert Smith
> > Futura ISP
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "imail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 11:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam volume down?
>
>
> > I have noticed a drop in spam over the last few weeks. I did just find
out
> > that Bell South just started blocking their customers from using port 25
as
> > I was suddenly unable to send mail from my house using my own server
located
> > in a colo facility. I had no email or any other warning.
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Robert Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 12:19 PM
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam volume down?
>
>
> >> Is anyone else seeing a dramatic decrease in the volume of incoming
email?
> >>
> >> We got our problem fixed with Postini (our problem actually, had to
kill
> >> IMonitor) but I'm still seeing numbers that are only 50% of our norm.
No
> >> errors in the logs that I can find other than spammers that can't get
> >> through.  (send error 10054 on known spamming IP's)
> >>
> >>
> >> Robert Smith
> >> Futur@ ISP
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> 501-374-3888
> >>
> >>
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