[MLUG] Recent Spam Spike???

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Has anyone else experienced a recent spike in spam, most of which
concerns a very few topics?  Thunderbird hasn't learned yet (for me),
and I'd estimate that I'm receiving about 4 times as much as I usually
do (easily 4 times, perhaps more).

Topics include:
Jackrabbit Vibrator
Watches Watches Watches (by designers I've never heard of)
More nonsense Subject lines than usual (a lot more)
More 'is somebody in pain' than usual
More perscription drug adverts than usual...
and Yesterday, a glut of about 45 'software' discount houses.

Futurequest, which maintains overly adequate hardware has been nearly
shutdown... They have a dozen or so MX servers that run normally at
65% utilization, and now they're backlogged as much as several hours
recently.  They are adding 7 more, and trying to speed things up by
hand, but if traffic has increased globally, I wonder if even that
will keep up.  Ironically this is one time that SpamAssassin is
actually problematic.  It's resource intensive and is only worsening
the situation.

Please let me know if we're alone in this.

 //Christian

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