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Subject: Re: Spam spike
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:41:39 -0600
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On 28-Apr-2009, at 19:48, Bill Christensen wrote:
> At 8:51 PM -0400 4/28/09, Alan Saul wrote:
>> I've been getting tons of spam for the past several days, and am  
>> wondering whether something changed at spamhaus or something. I  
>> didn't see anything on their site. I just use zen.spamhaus.org as  
>> my blacklist server. Any recommendations, apart from giving up on  
>> SIMS? :-)
>
> I don't use SIMS for any incoming mail any more, but I've seen a  
> steady growth of spam in general over the past week or so.  My Gmail  
> box typically shows under 20,000 in the spam folder, but it had  
> jumped up to almost 26,000 in the course of a week.   Maybe they  
> just hadn't done the automatic dumping for a while, but it seemed  
> that more was slipping through than usual.

I've seen an increase in spam of 50-100% over the last week or so.   
It's all getting caught by spamassassin, but yes, there does seem to  
be more of it.

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