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Re: sudden low spam levels?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Sergeant)
Mon Jan 3 14:50:38 2011

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:50:32 -0500
From: Matt Sergeant <msergeant@messagelabs.com>
To: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110103180455.GS12141@sizone.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Ken Chase 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.
>
> Total emails/day dropping from some 175,000-250,000ish to 50-75,000ish (legit
> mail in the 2-5,000 per day, yes I have some high spam:legit customers...). 3
> days in a row now at least, at quick glance.
>
> Did someone set up them the bomb?
>    

Something killed off RuStock at Xmas.

Matt.

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