From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 25 22:53:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA24280 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA24275 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (tc-if2-44.ida.net [208.141.171.101]) by anlsun.ebr.anlw.anl.gov (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id XAA07051 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:53:17 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 23:52:41 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home To: chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: major push by spammers? In-Reply-To: <17699.880524708@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > we have rejected 20 spam attempts in the last 16 hours. > > this is a record....could we have a major push underway? > > 20? Hahahahaha! :-) > > Try turning on reverse DNS filtering and you'll find that this number > goes WAAAY up. According to my stats just for time.cdrom.com, I've > rejected 2203 spam attempts since 9am this morning. Yep, that's > correct - approximately 2.8 spams rejected every minute. > > Jordan Could you divide that number by number of e-mail addresses to give a spams per username per day figure? If we can't do anything about spam we might as well quantify it. Think of it as science. Charles Mott