[SC-Help] Huge increase in SCBL hits

[Philip Walls]

We have a company-wide spam trapping system where I work. As as way to
make sure our blacklisting and spamtrapping is sane, I keep logs of how
many emails were rejected from blacklists, and which blacklist they were
rejected from.

This weekend I noticed a very large increase in rejects coming from
spamcop.net, and I was just curious what might have caused such a gigantic
change.

My figures show a total change (all of our RBLs) from 11,000 to 23,000!!
And for spamcop.net alone:

This past Thursday: 4774
This past Sunday: 9638

The amount rejected has been steadily increasing since Thursday. If anyone
has any information relating to this, or if anyone has experienced similar
changes, I'd be interested to hear from you.