Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080122 21:35]: > On Jan 21, 2008 9:42 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? > > I believe something has changed with

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 21, 2008 10:15 AM, Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps school/work starting back up after a holiday break has a bunch > of bored script kiddies busy with more important things to do? Script kiddies know about background execution and things like cron and at these days; time

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 21, 2008 9:42 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? I believe something has changed with the spamfilter on l.d.o; a good deal of my spam was coming from

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 01/21/2008 11:42 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the >> outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) >> suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been rec

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:14 PM, John Hasler wrote: Russel writes: The spam simply has disappeared. You can have mine. Neither the hosting outfit nor my local ISP has an explanation. One of them probably started doing some filtering, using an RBL, checking rDNS, etc. My guess is that th

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Russel writes: > The spam simply has disappeared. You can have mine. > Neither the hosting outfit nor my local ISP has an explanation. One of them probably started doing some filtering, using an RBL, checking rDNS, etc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Michael Shuler
On 01/21/2008 11:42 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been receiving about a thousand spam mails each day; now I a

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Russell L. Harris: > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? Or perhaps some Botnet that had your e-mail address went down? Some of them crank out several thousands of e-mails a day, if one or two went down

vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account) suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been receiving about a thousand spam mails each day; now I am receiving only about a hundred. The spam simply