[dba-Tech] Spam ceased?

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Jan 4 20:49:14 CST 2013


I haven't noticed any difference on my personal gmail account, because the spam filter is already amazing, but, now that you mention it, I haven't seen any spam lately on my corporate zimbra server.

- Hans

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On 2013-01-04, at 2:52 PM, "Kathryn Bassett" <kathryn at bassett.net> wrote:

> I use everyone.net as my mail host, so there is a spam folder there, as well
> as the one in Outlook once it's popped into that. Up until about 2 years
> ago, I would get 300-500 spams a day. Suddenly, in a short span of time
> (maybe a month), it started dropping dramatically to the point that for the
> last year or two, I get maybe a dozen a day. One or two slip by that Outlook
> catches. I'm not counting the junk that I get because of something I've
> bought, where they sell to third party, but I unsub from those. At first, I
> thought it was because everyone.net had improved their filters, but that
> didn't really make sense either. Bottom line, I've never figured out how or
> why the dramatic decrease, but who cares as long as that's the case.
> 
> --
> Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
> "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
> kathryn at bassett.net
> http://bassett.net   
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-
>> bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
>> Sent: 04 Jan 2013 9:41 AM
>> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Spam ceased?
>> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> This is so strange.  Until recently about 83% of all mail received here
> was spam.
>> Suddenly the hammering spambots seems to have ceased sending spam leaving
>> only the yahoo, gmail, and Hotmail types (lottery and so on) manually
> operated
>> accounts. Our spamfilter can stay quiet for 15 minutes or more, a
> situation I
>> can't recall to have seen in modern time.
>> 
>> Anyone else seeing this?
>> 
>> /gustav
>> 
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