full-disclosure - Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:01:58 -0500
From: "James C. Slora Jr." <james.slora@...a.com>
To: <Ring-of-Fire@...oogroups.com>, "funsec" <funsec@...uxbox.org>,
	"Full-Disclosure" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	<incidents@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow
	today?

The cause was massive cross-posting to security lists. Just kidding.

Are your numbers pre-filtering or post-filtering? 

Pre-filtering counts are really spam counts, so if your numbers are pre-filtering you are just seeing a basic bot-driven spam run. And basic bot-driven spam runs are far more dramatic than they were a couple of years ago.

I see pre-filtering peaks like that several times per month. December 3 was my most recent spike, with 440,000 messages compared to 270,000 on the 2nd and 4th.

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