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Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Dude VanWinkle :: Rate this Message:

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My servers are slammed...

Anyone else notice anything?

-JP

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RE: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Maloney, Michael :: Rate this Message:

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I've noticed a 30K increase per day in traffic..

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Middlesex County College
2600 Woodbridge Avenue
Edison, NJ 08818
Phone: 732-906-7754
Cell: 908-217-2086
Fax: 732-906-4266
Email: MMaloney@...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle@...]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 3:49 PM
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Subject: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

My servers are slammed...

Anyone else notice anything?

-JP

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Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Kosala Atapattu-2 :: Rate this Message:

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as a percentage?

On Dec 4, 2007 4:27 PM, Maloney, Michael <MMaloney@...> wrote:

> I've noticed a 30K increase per day in traffic..
>
> ********************************************
> Mike Maloney
> Sr. System Engineer
> Middlesex County College
> 2600 Woodbridge Avenue
> Edison, NJ 08818
> Phone: 732-906-7754
> Cell: 908-217-2086
> Fax: 732-906-4266
> Email: MMaloney@...
> ********************************************
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle@...]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 3:49 PM
> To: Ring-of-Fire@...; funsec; Full-Disclosure; incidents@...
> Subject: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?
>
> My servers are slammed...
>
> Anyone else notice anything?
>
> -JP
>
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Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Dude VanWinkle :: Rate this Message:

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On Dec 4, 2007 8:27 AM, Maloney, Michael <MMaloney@...> wrote:
> I've noticed a 30K increase per day in traffic..


I was finally able to do the numbers:

We do 1,000,000 emails a day

We did 1.3 million that day..

Something must have happened...

-JP

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RE: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Jerry L. Ivey :: Rate this Message:

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Can you determine the nature of the increase? Is it just spam/junk?

I'm seeing a significant increase in my personal mail due to Spam/Junk
mail just within the last week.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Maloney, Michael
Cc: Ring-of-Fire@...; funsec; Full-Disclosure;
incidents@...
Subject: Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

On Dec 4, 2007 8:27 AM, Maloney, Michael <MMaloney@...>
wrote:
> I've noticed a 30K increase per day in traffic..


I was finally able to do the numbers:

We do 1,000,000 emails a day

We did 1.3 million that day..

Something must have happened...

-JP

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FW: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

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----- Forwarded Message ----
From: <pjsutton1@...>
To: dudevanwinkle@...; MMaloney@...
Cc: incidents@...
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2007 6:24:19 AM
Subject: RE: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

Is the increase of traffic from inside out or outside in?
PS


Can you determine the nature of the increase? Is it just spam/junk?
I'm seeing a significant increase in my personal mail due to Spam/Junk
mail just within the last week.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Maloney, Michael
Cc: Ring-of-Fire@...; funsec; Full-Disclosure;
incidents@...
Subject: Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?
On Dec 4, 2007 8:27 AM, Maloney, Michael <MMaloney@...>
wrote:
> I've noticed a 30K increase per day in traffic..

I was finally able to do the numbers:
We do 1,000,000 emails a day
We did 1.3 million that day..
Something must have happened...
-JP


 
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by Maloney, Michael :: Rate this Message:

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All from outside -> in..  
I've been averaging about 110K-130K emails per days, with about 4-5K
allowed thru as being considered valid.  Knock 10% off the delivered
amount for false negatives (delivered but are really spam).  Rest are
spam or invalid recipients and viruses.

********************************************
Mike Maloney
Sr. System Engineer
Middlesex County College
2600 Woodbridge Avenue
Edison, NJ 08818
Phone: 732-906-7754
Cell: 908-217-2086
Fax: 732-906-4266
Email: MMaloney@...
********************************************
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sutton [mailto:pjsutton1@...]
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 AM
To: dudevanwinkle@...; Maloney, Michael
Cc: incidents@...
Subject: RE: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

Is the increase of traffic from inside out or outside in?
PS


Can you determine the nature of the increase? Is it just spam/junk?
I'm seeing a significant increase in my personal mail due to Spam/Junk
mail just within the last week.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dude VanWinkle [mailto:dudevanwinkle@...]
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Maloney, Michael
Cc: Ring-of-Fire@...; funsec; Full-Disclosure;
incidents@...
Subject: Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?
On Dec 4, 2007 8:27 AM, Maloney, Michael <MMaloney@...>
wrote:
> I've noticed a 30K increase per day in traffic..
 
I was finally able to do the numbers:
We do 1,000,000 emails a day
We did 1.3 million that day..
Something must have happened...
-JP


 
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RE: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Sven Meeus :: Rate this Message:

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> Can you determine the nature of the increase? Is it just spam/junk?
>
> I'm seeing a significant increase in my personal mail due to Spam/Junk
mail just within the last week.  

We have a steady increase in mail since the beginning of October. The
difference between then and now is about 23% more spam/junk mails. There
are some days with high peaks, but I don't really worry about those
days. I would start worrying when the sudden increase stays, and doesn't
go down again.
I suppose it has to do with the holidays coming up. A part of the new
kind of spam/junk are mailings from locally based companies sending out
their holiday gift promotions and such.
I remember that last year, we had the same increase in mail, but once it
was January, it rapidly decreased again.

Regards,

Sven.


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Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Dude VanWinkle :: Rate this Message:

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On Dec 6, 2007 8:46 AM, Sven Meeus <sven.meeus@...> wrote:

> > Can you determine the nature of the increase? Is it just spam/junk?
> >
> > I'm seeing a significant increase in my personal mail due to Spam/Junk
> mail just within the last week.
>
> We have a steady increase in mail since the beginning of October. The
> difference between then and now is about 23% more spam/junk mails. There
> are some days with high peaks, but I don't really worry about those
> days. I would start worrying when the sudden increase stays, and doesn't
> go down again.
> I suppose it has to do with the holidays coming up. A part of the new
> kind of spam/junk are mailings from locally based companies sending out
> their holiday gift promotions and such.
> I remember that last year, we had the same increase in mail, but once it
> was January, it rapidly decreased again.

Ahh the Christmas spam angle. <slaps self on forehead>

I had forgotten about that one..

-JP

> Regards,
>
> Sven.
>
>

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Re: FW: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

by Dude VanWinkle :: Rate this Message:

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On Dec 6, 2007 7:31 AM, Sutton, Paul A. <SuttonP@...> wrote:

> Is the increase of traffic from inside out or outside in?


The increase is mostly from external emails. I am still grepping
through logs to see the spam/ham ratio :-)

-JP

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