Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Michael Shuler wrote:
> On 01/21/2008 11:42 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> About a week ago, the volume of spam (flagged by SpamAssassin at the
>> outfit which hosts my web site and supplies me with a pop3 account)
>> suddenly plumeted by an order of magnitude. I had been receiving
>> about a thousand spam mails each day; now I am receiving only about a
>> hundred.
>
> Perhaps school/work starting back up after a holiday break has a bunch
> of bored script kiddies busy with more important things to do?
That's unlikely. Script kiddies have little to do with spam. Botnet have a
LOT, so a massive ammount of people turning off their computers, OR
reinstalling (and getting out of the botnet for a small while), might well
make a difference :p
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