Has there been a surge in the volume of spam?

[cmiller173]

Anyone notice a significant increase in the amount of spam in general not just sg? I have a Gmail account with a pretty weak ID that was pretty easy for a dictionary attack to find. Gmail keeps the last 30 days or so of spam it filters in a spam folder. Up until about 3 months ago the amount of spam my account received hovered around 1000 a month, sometimes dropping to 950 sometimes rising to 1100 but was consistently in that range for about twenty months. In the last 3-4 months the amount of spam in the filtered folder has risen steadily and sits right now at about 2300. Anyone else notice a big jump in volume recently?

[mysticturner]

I've been using SG for so long that I don't even remember what spam looks like. Whoo Hooo for SG!!! To answer the question however, I haven't noticed a big increase rate of increase of my SG deleted stat.

[josh]

I think there has been a spike in the last few months.

[de552]

I've been using SG for so long that I don't even remember what spam looks like. Whoo Hooo for SG!!! To answer the question however, I haven't noticed a big increase rate of increase of my SG deleted stat.

Same here! I have been using sg for something like 3 years or so. And I haven't been suffering from spam.

Altough when spamgourmet "went down" due those attacks I lost quite many penpals because I couldn't reach them anymore and they couldn't reach me. That's sad.

Right now there seems to be some problems again. Email is taking more than 12 hours to get delivered (randomly). It seems that serverice is getting overloaded again.

[josh]

See the news -- I misconfigured one of the bits of software we're using to block the bots, and that caused a CPU load spike which resulted in a mini-meltdown. We're back up now, and the delayed mail should be flushing through the system over the next 24 hours, then I'm thinking we'll be normal (and normal is good, these days) again.