Friday, June 25. 2004
What were the spammers doing?
Monday and Tuesday of this week, we had a significant downturn in SPAM -- The stats are:| Date | Total Email | Delivered | SPAM |
|---|
| 2004-06-14 Mon | 27578 | 6997 | 20972 |
| 2004-06-15 Tue | 28105 | 6099 | 22354 |
| 2004-06-21 Mon | 21764 | 6183 | 15479 |
| 2004-06-22 Tue | 18127 | 4094 | 13970 |
| 2004-06-23 Wed | 27826 | 6759 | 21277 |
| 2004-06-24 Thu | 27710 | 6941 | 20612 |
Wed and Thur we're back up to normal levels. The total amount of email dropped a little more than the amount of SPAM. So the conclusion is...we got a LOT less SPAM Monday and Tuesday.
Were the spammers reconfiguring their software to use tens of thousands of new relay hosts? Were they taking a holiday?
I have no idea - but any time the spammers change behavior, I'm on my guard.
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