[Gllug] What has happened to the list ?

[Avi Greenbury]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:12:31 +0100
Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:49:55AM +0100, John G Walker wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:54:53 +0000 Avi Greenbury
> > <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Has anyone else experienced email delays?
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > We've had a few delays of 3+ hrs on our systems here over the past
> > > two days apparently. Nothing for a while, then *all* the emails
> > > delivered at once.
> > 
> > I think I may have the record. This email was sent on 7 March and I
> > received it on 22 April. I tact, I've just received a whole bunch of
> > old emails, of which three or four were older than this one,
> 
> I am seeing a lot of spam ATM, something just under 1 connection a second,
> most of which I am rejecting at the RCPT stage: RBL, bad address, ...
> 
> I think that it is a jump, or maybe I just have not looked for a couple of months.
> 

We've had similar. I don't see the stats that far in advance, but over the weekend the 'probably spam' directory got 20,000 emails, as against 3,500 on a normal weekend. Might well just be some new tactic that's bemused the spam filter we've got sitting in front of Exchange, though.

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