[pLog-svn] spammers...

Jon Daley plogworld at jon.limedaley.com
Fri Jun 8 10:09:11 EDT 2007


 	How much spam do you get through the contact@ and press@ lists?  I 
see that because of the way I do the forwarding, spamassassin isn't run, 
so there is just greylisting and blacklist blocking.

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Jon Daley wrote:

> 	No, actually.  It was a nice test.  I can't see any difference from 
> normal:
>
> http://limedaley.com/mrtg/limedaley.cpu.html
>
> (note, most current time is on the left - see the red arrow pointing to the 
> left, that confuses people lots of times)
>
> The largest peak of email (161 per minute, sustained for maybe 10 minutes) 
> was at 11:20PM last night.  And then there are the regular nightly task 
> jumps, but that is it.
>
> So, it helps verify my theory that hosting email doesn't cause much load, and 
> my IT guys at my part-time job are crazy for needing multiple servers for 
> hosting just the email.
>
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>> Did it cause much load on the server?
>> 
>> On 6/8/07, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>>>         Spammers have been trying to have fun - ~6600 emails sent
>>> in the last 12 hours to random addresses @lifetype.net.
>>> 
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