[svlug] Sudden increase in spam volume

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Kevin Smathers (kevin at ank.com):

> Normally I don't run the numbers at all, but my server logs were getting 
> uncomfortably close to filling up the partition, thus leading to an 
> investigation of the cause. Otherwise, I'm from the lazy sysadmin camp.

Being enthusiastically a fellow member of your "laziness is good" party,
I hereby offer ye old lazy handwave in support of your speculation of a
4x spike, two days ago:

linuxmafia:~# ls -l /var/log/exim4/rejectlog*
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  899041 2006-12-07 13:49 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm 2678673 2006-12-07 06:28 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.1
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  436997 2006-11-28 06:29 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.10.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  482718 2006-12-06 06:29 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  489324 2006-12-05 06:29 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  464150 2006-12-04 06:27 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  251599 2006-12-03 06:34 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  350515 2006-12-02 06:28 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  487857 2006-12-01 06:28 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  448686 2006-11-30 06:29 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 Debian-exim adm  373136 2006-11-29 06:32 /var/log/exim4/rejectlog.9.gz