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 Oct. 12th with 1,600 spam. This is odd because the low point and the high point are nearly the same times just different days. > Ham rate on the other hand does seem to increase during "extended > business hours" of my local timezone. But not dramaticaly. It seems > to go up about 50% between 8am and 7pm EST. However, I'd venture to > guess the ham rate increase is almost entirely due to geography. Our ham rate looks more like your spam graphs. From 4am to 12pm it rises to it's peak and then from 1pm to 3am it slowly goes back down to the low point. A different point is user_unknowns, as an ISP with many revolving customers, we see nearly 1 spam get blocked for each message blocked due to user_unknown. Last 48 hours shows: spam-reject 58,437 user_unknown 52,263 And they never clean their lists, this data has been consistant like this since we started keeping track of it.
