[134291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sudden low spam levels?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Jan 3 14:40:32 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikV_o2PEXh+K4E=JHjyC6zSOUV15w9vC3nYtytG@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:39:44 -0500
To: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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According the to Symantec "December 2010 State of Spam & Phishing =
Report", spam is reducing=20
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http://www.spamfighter.com/News-15570-Spam-Volume-Continues-to-Decrease-Sy=
mantec.htm
I have seen various reports relating this to the taking down of=20
this or that botnet (see, e.g.,=20
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Botnet-Holiday-Spam-Levels-Drop-for-Chri=
stmas-566115/ )
but I would take that with a big grain of salt.=20
Regards
Marshall
> 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
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> The numbers for December are especially unusual, as with Christmas =
coming
> it's normally one of the higher months for spam.
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> 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.
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> Scott.
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