Abulsme.com » spam http://www.abulsme.com The Blog of Abulsme Noibatno Itramne Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Spam Mystery Solved http://www.abulsme.com/2009/09/02/spam-mystery-solved/ http://www.abulsme.com/2009/09/02/spam-mystery-solved/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:25:56 +0000 Abulsme http://www.abulsme.com/?p=246

I guess I should follow up…  turns out my spam spike was pretty much an illusion.  I wasn’t really getting much more spam than before.  Rather, the mail client on my iMac, which is also the machine I use to automatically check the size of mailboxes, etc, had an issue with one of the indexes it [...]]]> spamdata200909021420W500

I guess I should follow up…  turns out my spam spike was pretty much an illusion.  I wasn’t really getting much more spam than before.  Rather, the mail client on my iMac, which is also the machine I use to automatically check the size of mailboxes, etc, had an issue with one of the indexes it uses (I think).  Each hour it would get confused and redownload a bunch of messages from the server that in fact it already had.  It would do this over and over again, basically as fast as it could.  After rebuilding the mailbox, suddenly all that fake mail was gone, and things were basically back to normal.  (Minus a bunch of spam I had deleted in the mean time.)  You can see the pattern above, showing when the problem started, and when it was fixed.

]]> http://www.abulsme.com/2009/09/02/spam-mystery-solved/feed/ 0 Spam Subsiding http://www.abulsme.com/2009/08/16/spam-subsiding/ http://www.abulsme.com/2009/08/16/spam-subsiding/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:47:10 +0000 Abulsme http://www.abulsme.com/?p=182

Not quite back to the original rate, still significantly greater actually, but just as suddenly as the onslaught began, it has subsided.  It would be nice if it returned to where it was before, but I’ll take what I can get [...]]]> spamdata200908160535

Not quite back to the original rate, still significantly greater actually, but just as suddenly as the onslaught began, it has subsided.  It would be nice if it returned to where it was before, but I’ll take what I can get for now.

]]> http://www.abulsme.com/2009/08/16/spam-subsiding/feed/ 2 Sudden Increase in Spam Volume? http://www.abulsme.com/2009/08/08/sudden-increase-in-spam-volume/ http://www.abulsme.com/2009/08/08/sudden-increase-in-spam-volume/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:43:06 +0000 Abulsme http://www.abulsme.com/?p=137 This is a chart of the amount of spam I have in Spam folders that I haven’t yet glanced through to look for things that got in there by mistake. (Yeah, yeah, I’m way behind.)

As of around 12 UTC (plus or minus a few hours) on Friday 7 Aug, the number I’ve been getting has [...]]]> This is a chart of the amount of spam I have in Spam folders that I haven’t yet glanced through to look for things that got in there by mistake. (Yeah, yeah, I’m way behind.)

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As of around 12 UTC (plus or minus a few hours) on Friday 7 Aug, the number I’ve been getting has moved from about 500 per day, about the rate it had been at for basically years, to almost 22 THOUSAND new spam emails per day.

Is this happening to other people?  Or is it just me?

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