Unheard ofevent <OT>

[David Bandel]

On 11/7/06, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/06, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> >
> > > I've never seen it happen before: spamsters took a day off!
> > >
> > > When I checked this morning, I only had 9 items in my spam folder
> > > (normal is 200+).
> >
> > Since implementing greylisting on my mail server I see hardly any spam -
> > some days I may get two or more but never more than four.
> >
> > Most of the current spam we get is from PCs (probably many are infected
> > zombie PCs) hence greylisting is very very effective since most don't run
> > a real MTA.
> >
>
> Two dayslater, I've only gotten 154 spams (quite low). Maybe gmail is
> actually dropping some of the worst offenders now?

Not sure what's happening.  gmail spam folder (which I ignore other
than to note the number) dropped below 1300 (actually 1095 right now)
for the first time in months.  It had been running around 1500 two
weeks ago.  That's a significant drop.  My mail servers seem to be
less heavily saturated as well.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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