Rob Saul wrote: > Scott Garman wrote: >> For about a week now I've noticed a massive drop in the amount of spam >> myself and my users have been getting. I remember around this time last >> year an ISP was de-peered which was responsible for a large portion of >> spam email, but searching through Google News I'm not seeing any similar >> reports this time. >> >> Just out of curiosity, is anyone else noticing this? > > This graph http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear would 'seem > to suggest' that spam levels are up some from last year. I notice > there's a bit of a up-tick around the time Windows 7 was released. Could > just be a coincidence.
Ah, I see. Most likely then I've been hit by one particular source of spam that has subsided. I know a friend of mine who uses Verizon as his ISP can no longer use third party SMTP servers via port 25 anymore. It's possibly related to something along those lines. In any case, I'll take it! :) Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
