[14295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Today is a good day to die"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Balbach)
Mon Dec 22 18:05:58 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:56:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
Reply-To: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net>
To: nicholas harteau <panic@voodoo.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971220205017.04873@construct.net>
Odd. Thats almost exactly parallel with how much spam we get. Normally
20-40K and in the past week or so as high as 160K - must be some kind of
conspiracy.
Stb
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, nicholas harteau wrote:
> on another note, the volume of spam around the holidays goes up
> dramatically.
>
> i admin nowhere.com, (no, we don't generate or relay spam), and
> we usually get about 25-35k bounces/death threats/etc per month
> destined for the domain.
>
> by the 15th we were up to 160k
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:17:57PM +0000, Leigh Porter wrote:
> > Prabhu Kavi wrote:
> > >
> > > Nope. Try a bunch of 1+Meg emailed executables showing things like
> > > Rudolph going splat, men and women dancing, etc.
> > >
> >
> > And then all the mail on all he mailing lists with people
> > wondering why things are slow ;-)
> >
> > The 1+Meg emailed things are pretty good though, is there
> > an alt.binaries group full of them?
> >
> > alt.binaries.christmas-bandwidth-eaters
> >
> >
> > --
> > Leigh
>
> --
> nicholas harteau
> panic@voodoo.net
>
