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

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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 14:46:26 +0100
From: "Sven Meeus" <sven.meeus@...s.be>
To: "Jerry L. Ivey" <jerry@...vey.com>,
	"Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle@...il.com>,
	"Maloney, Michael" <MMaloney@...dlesexcc.edu>
Cc: funsec <funsec@...uxbox.org>,
	Full-Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Ring-of-Fire@...oogroups.com, incidents@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow
	today?

> Can you determine the nature of the increase? Is it just spam/junk?
> 
> I'm seeing a significant increase in my personal mail due to Spam/Junk
mail just within the last week.  

We have a steady increase in mail since the beginning of October. The
difference between then and now is about 23% more spam/junk mails. There
are some days with high peaks, but I don't really worry about those
days. I would start worrying when the sudden increase stays, and doesn't
go down again.
I suppose it has to do with the holidays coming up. A part of the new
kind of spam/junk are mailings from locally based companies sending out
their holiday gift promotions and such.
I remember that last year, we had the same increase in mail, but once it
was January, it rapidly decreased again.

Regards,

Sven.

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