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Re: [LUG] Spam increase

 

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 22:33 +0100, stinga wrote:
> Anyone noticed an increase in spam recently?
> At work we /dev/nulled about 97% of the 4 million emails we received  
> yesterday.
> 
Yes we have. Stats show that over the past week or so we have received
about 5 times the normal amount of mail. Of that over 90% is now
rejected on average (previous was nearer 80%).


John.

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