Re: Time based rules?

2019-05-24 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 24 May 2019, @lbutlr wrote: I've noticed that the majority of spam I get comes in between 0900 and 1000, local time. In the past couple of months well more than 50% of spam (well, at least spam that isn't getting tagged) comes in during this hour, with a smaller percentage within an o

RE: Time based rules

2004-10-15 Thread RPICKERING
That's perhaps what I'm after. Most spam that we receive seems to originate from the US. While we do have a couple of US based clients, they could be whitelisted if necessary. Thanks for the tip. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > As far as I can

Re: Time based rules

2004-10-14 Thread Loren Wilton
> Would it be worthwhile to combine geography and time? Might, might not. At work most business mail arrives between 7am and 6pm, with corporate news distributions and the like arriving between 10pm and 2am. At home a lot of real stuff starts showing up at 4am or so, and it trails off around 4am

RE: Time based rules

2004-10-14 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Fred wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote: >> Looking at my MRTG graphs, spam-rate is pretty much a constant here. > > Same here, it's about 1,200-1,400 per hour for us. This stays constant 24 > hours a day for us. In the past 48 hours, the lowest point was 11pm on Oct. > 13th with only 800 spam, and the

Re: Time based rules

2004-10-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:58 AM 10/14/2004, Martin Hepworth wrote: Last time I looked at spam rate it dipped Mon-Tues then picked up again and tended to be US eastern time Interesting, my graphs over the past 3 weeks tend to peak on Weds, roll off steadily hitting a low on Sunday, then ramp back up Monday and Tuesda

Re: Time based rules

2004-10-14 Thread Fred
Matt Kettler wrote: > Looking at my MRTG graphs, spam-rate is pretty much a constant here. Same here, it's about 1,200-1,400 per hour for us. This stays constant 24 hours a day for us. In the past 48 hours, the lowest point was 11pm on Oct. 13th with only 800 spam, and the high point of 10pm on

Re: Time based rules

2004-10-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
Matt Kettler wrote: At 05:16 AM 10/14/2004, RPICKERING wrote: I was just thinking that most (95%) of our legitimate email comes in during office hours (8am - 7pm GMT) and a lot of spam comes in overnight (probably when the spammers in the rest of the world wake up and start doing business). So I wa

Re: Time based rules

2004-10-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:16 AM 10/14/2004, RPICKERING wrote: I was just thinking that most (95%) of our legitimate email comes in during office hours (8am - 7pm GMT) and a lot of spam comes in overnight (probably when the spammers in the rest of the world wake up and start doing business). So I was wondering if there