Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:52:41 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net> To: chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971125234835.25748A-100000@darkstar.home> In-Reply-To: <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > we have rejected 20 spam attempts in the last 16 hours. > > this is a record....could we have a major push underway? > > 20? Hahahahaha! :-) > > Try turning on reverse DNS filtering and you'll find that this number > goes WAAAY up. According to my stats just for time.cdrom.com, I've > rejected 2203 spam attempts since 9am this morning. Yep, that's > correct - approximately 2.8 spams rejected every minute. > > Jordan Could you divide that number by number of e-mail addresses to give a spams per username per day figure? If we can't do anything about spam we might as well quantify it. Think of it as science. Charles Mott
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