Re: [MLUG] Recent Spam Spike???

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

No.  I've seen a major influx of junk mail in the past week or two.  
I've had users complaining a lot about it, too.

I even had a few spam mails in my gmail account this morning.  That's a 
first.

Christian M. Cepel wrote:

>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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Shawn Parker
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Cumulus Broadcasting, LLC.
Columbia, Missouri - KBXR, KFRU, KOQL, KPLA
Jefferson City, Missouri - KBBM, KJMO, KLIK
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