Louis LeBlanc wrote:
On 01/03/05 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sat at the `puter and typed:
Over the past month I've seen a ~25% dropoff in the amount of spam we're
receiving on a daily basis. Anyone else seeing a significant drop in
spam recently?
I sincerely doubt it. I just turned on fetchmail to pull all my holiday backlog of work email. 1856 messages total. 45 of which were real email, the rest were spam. This is from 12/23 to 1/2, 11 days. That's actually a little bit of a spike.
At home, I'm getting far less, but still seems a small spike there lately. Even with all my honeypots seeded out there.
Well, at least now I'm getting my automation tuned out a little.
That's not to say they aren't feeling any pain. Every week or so, /. has some spammer related story, and the spammers aren't coming out on the rosy end. Matter of fact, ISTR one where a judge awarded $1Billion to a small ISP in California(?) that was nearly driven under by a single spammer. Maybe it was mentioned here?
Lou
