Author Topic: Anyone else noticing a spam decline? (Read 1231 times)

zymmetricaldotcom · « **on:** November 14, 2008, 12:25 »

http://news.google.com/news?q=McColo&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

Managing our own mail servers, I started to wonder if I had broken something - suddenly no more deleting 20 emails for every legit one. The shutdown of this spam company seems to be the reason. Some people report the spam coming back after a day or so, but it's still significantly down here. Anyone else?

Clivia · « **Reply #1 on:** November 14, 2008, 14:32 »

I monitor incoming emails for the company I work for. Usually I delete a couple of thousand spam mails every morning, this morning it was much less than half that. A lot less work for me!

leaf · « **Reply #2 on:** November 14, 2008, 15:07 »

yeah i saw that news bit too.. nice to see.

Forum boards on the other hand - this board in any case... spambots are on the crazy rise the last few days.

BrokenPhotographer · « **Reply #3 on:** November 14, 2008, 16:49 »

My email spam has gone down, today I only had 2 emails to delete instead of my usual hundred, I'll agree with the forum spambots though, a site I own with a forum has recently started getting spambots, thank goodness for ip blocks.