"Jose Fragoso" <inet_use...@samerica.com> writes: > This list has gone quite small in size recently. The size changed from > above 100000 IP addresses to only 10000 now. Could it be because > University of Alberta is not being targeted so often anymore? Or is > it because they have become more selective in trapping addresses?
I actually think that you are seeing a decrease in the number of active spam senders. Other greytrappers (like my robot helpers) have seen a decrease in trapped hosts too. This could the effect of events like the McColo takedown last November, and possibly other less publicized events could have helped too. There is even a tiny possibility that some former spam senders have come under a more sensible sysadmin regime, and we can even hope that our greytrapping and 'name and shame' efforts are having some effect. We can dream, can't we? - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
