> Anyone else see a bit of an uptick in the amount of spam hitting their > server these last couple days?
I only have one active account on SIMS, and given how little mail it gets at all, my best guess is that it followed the trend of my ISP account, which was significantly less mail of any kind at all over Christmas. In the same vein that people were too busy keeping Christmas to bother to send me personal mail, then likewise were spammers too busy to send me spam either - spam seemed to drop a lot over Christmas. Now that Christmas is over, it seems to have returned to a volume equivalent to pre-Christmas - nothing's changed. As a testimony to (my increasing the) obscurity of Firetrack, the vast majority of log entries since Christmas have been of the likes of: 17:57:21 3 SYSTEM WaitNextEvent: too long(731 ticks) and prior to that, it was basically just SIMS list mail. Oddly, I tried to give a girl my SIMS address ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ip.org) the other day, for her to whitelist it in SpamAssassin (which seems to have deleted my last two mails to her, in the past few months), and SA refused to accept it as a valid address. Another person successfully got SA to whitelist it, so I dunno what hers' problem was. *shrugs* Just gave her my ISP address - just that that one doesn't match my IRC nick. meh. > Because I sure have, and it's probably attributable to n00bs connecting their > brand-new yet still-inadequately-patched Windows boxes up to the net. > So many new zombie relays to be exploited... Hmm... but how would anyone send mail via these? Surely people don't go installing/activating a mail server on their machine as soon as they get it? Is this a suggestion that one can make use of a worm/virus to install a micro SMTP server on a Windows machine, or activate IIS's SMTP system? ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
