Re: SPAM sudden increase

ByteCoder <me@xxxxxxxx> delighted us to no end by taking a lime
green crayon and scribbling in
news:Xns971C6C76ED42DBCfromHolland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, on the hallowed
day of Mon 28 Nov 2005 01:39:47a:

> "-=Biscuit=-" <mara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:Xns971BAFD8C3045no.one@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> Anyone else notice a sudden increase in SPAM? I swear it was
>> like SpamAssassin just stopped working. I have my filters set
>> very tight, and normally only 1-2 SPAM sneak through a month.
>> Now I'm getting 5-6 a day, and my clients are getting TONS,
>> not being marked as SPAM.
>>
>> I noticed SA v3.1.0 came out in September, yet for whatever
>> reason up2date didn't update it on my server until around Nov
>> 9th. Anyone else noticing this too? I know the latest version
>> had many changes (I'm still reading the changelog) but it's
>> almost like it just dropped all the rules...
>>
>>
>>
>
> Since two weeks more spam has made it through my ISP's spam
> filter than usually, but what did get through was marked as
> spam by Thunderbird. :)
>

I have a lot of clients who use only webmail (and won't listen to
me about changing) so I need to do something at the server level. I
thought the SA filters I had set were working.

Arrggghghhhhhhh

--
-=Mara=-
If stupidity was painful, The Rocky Mountains would be full of
screams.


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