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


From: "Jerry L. Ivey" <jerry () jlivey com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:57:29 -0600

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 () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:00 PM
To: Maloney, Michael
Cc: Ring-of-Fire () yahoogroups com; funsec; Full-Disclosure;
incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Anyone have a reason for 2x the email flow today?

On Dec 4, 2007 8:27 AM, Maloney, Michael <MMaloney () middlesexcc edu>
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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