[extropy-chat] My, they *are* persistent...

[Amara Graps]

It looks like a new-ish SPAM strategy is to send clusters of
monster 1-Mb files to choke the procmail scripts. Score one
for the spammers, I guess. It killed the procmail program
and overloaded the CPU on the machines of my ISP. I honestly
don't know what rate I was receiving spam- my logs show something
like three or four thousand per day with most of that going into
/dev/null. My ISP and I are trying some different things now
for my domain which presently cuts that number down significantly.

Does anyone know what percentage of the Internet mail is
spam now? I am curious. I wouldn't be surprised if it was > 80%.

Amara

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