[svlug] Sudden increase in spam volume

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Kevin Smathers (kevin at ank.com):

> So I am happy with my spam filtering -- what I'm interested in is if 
> anyone else is seeing the same volume increase of spam. 

A big, big jump, some time a few weeks ago.

Quoting from one of my posts on a private mailing list:


  From rick Mon Nov 27 22:15:01 2006
  Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:15:01 -0800
  To: evals at lists.merlins.org
  Subject: Re: [Evals] 743 gmail spams

  Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc at merlins.org):

  > I "only" have 3701 on gmail, although a 10th of my Email in my Inbox
  > is still unfiltered spam
  >
  > On my personal mail, with SA-Exim, over the last month:
  > - 13288 teegrubed spams
  > -  7407 rejected spams
  > -  2088 greylisted spams
  > -   316 tagged but accepted spams
  >   -----
  >   23099 spams (1.3% tagged but accepted, <0.01% untagged spam)

  I liked SA-Exim so much, I installed it ages ago.  ;->

  Recent analysis on linuxmafia.com's /var/log/exim4/rejectlog* :
  37,318 distinct (refused) spam delivery attempts in ~10 days,
  originating from 12,080 IP addresses.  Thank you, SA-Exim (Marc) and
  EximConfig (J.P. Boggis).


Marc's reply was "You win!"  ;->


> Because of the low quality of the spam I'm still only getting 20-30 in
> my mailbox each day, but my server load has jumped from a historical
> average of about 600 delivery requests per day, to about 2,200 two
> days ago, to about 9,600 today. 
 
I'm guessing you have more bandwidth (capable of being abused) than my
piddly little home aDSL line has.  You win!  ;->