Re: junkmailers take the day off....?

2016-03-20 Thread bzs

On March 19, 2016 at 18:28 mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com (Mike) wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 >  This is not a complaint, but today seems to be a major disturbance 
 > in the force...my junkmail load seems to be WAAA down today, like 
 > they all are out at the beach or something... some major botnet get 
 > shutdown or something???

Something which has long worried me is that they get smart enough to
stop spamming network admins and similar.

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RE: junkmailers take the day off....?

2016-03-20 Thread Tim McKee
We can only hope it is so...

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 21:29
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: junkmailers take the day off?

Hi,

 This is not a complaint, but today seems to be a major disturbance in the 
force...my junkmail load seems to be WAAA down today, like they all are out 
at the beach or something... some major botnet get shutdown or something???

Mike

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Re: junkmailers take the day off....?

2016-03-20 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: junkmailers take the day off? Date: Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 
01:50:31AM + Quoting Mel Beckman (m...@beckman.org):
> I'm seeing the same thing. Weird. 
> 
> -mel via cell
> 
> > On Mar 19, 2016, at 6:29 PM, Mike  wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >This is not a complaint, but today seems to be a major disturbance in 
> > the force...my junkmail load seems to be WAAA down today, like they all 
> > are out at the beach or something... some major botnet get shutdown or 
> > something???

A large portion of the Swedish newspaper web sites were hit with a fairly
large attack yesterday evening MET, around 1830UTC. Perhaps the keyword is
"retasked". Fwiw, I also saw a decline in my spamcount. 

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Re: junkmailers take the day off....?

2016-03-19 Thread Mel Beckman
I'm seeing the same thing. Weird. 

-mel via cell

> On Mar 19, 2016, at 6:29 PM, Mike  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>This is not a complaint, but today seems to be a major disturbance in the 
> force...my junkmail load seems to be WAAA down today, like they all are 
> out at the beach or something... some major botnet get shutdown or 
> something???
> 
> Mike


junkmailers take the day off....?

2016-03-19 Thread Mike

Hi,

This is not a complaint, but today seems to be a major disturbance 
in the force...my junkmail load seems to be WAAA down today, like 
they all are out at the beach or something... some major botnet get 
shutdown or something???


Mike