[SpamCop-List] Re: The 3x spike in submissions started right at 14:00 today Sunday ET.

[Thomas Mooney]

Ben <ben.de+SCnews at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:bv2132$4ir$2 at news.spamcop.net...
> According to the stats http://alpha.cesmail.net/graphics/spamstats.gif
> there seems to be a huge spike in spams. It looks as if the average went
> from ~10 per second to ~30 per second (reports that is.)
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> I loath to go in to the office tomorrow and see what kind of traffic the
>   mail servers have there (an average day means ~75,000 rejected emails.)

Fear not, today's spike is just a result of SpamCop limping along for 24
hours or so.  Take look at a graph for a larger timeframe - 1 week or 1
month.  You'll see that there was a problem that kept submissions/reports at
below-normal levels.  Once the problem was resolved, the backlog started
processing with a vengeance.

Worth noting: I just got the confirmation e-mail for a small batch of spam I
submitted about 30 hours ago.

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