[134290] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sudden low spam levels?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Mon Jan 3 14:05:32 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110103180455.GS12141@sizone.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 11:04:37 -0800
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org> wrote:
> I have two independent mailservers, and two other customers that run their
> own
> servers, all largely unrelated infrastructures and target domains, suddenly
> experiencing low levels of spam.
>
There's definitely been a drop-off in spam levels over the past week, which
comes on top of a general drop over the past few months.
Although far from a great indicator of global levels, the following two
graphs give a good idea on what's happening on a relative basis :
Past Month - http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spammonth
Past Year - http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear
The numbers for December are especially unusual, as with Christmas coming
it's normally one of the higher months for spam.
The drop-off since September is mainly due to the closure of
spamit.com(Pharma spam referal company), although I haven't seen any
reports of what's
caused the drop-off in the past week or so.
Scott.
