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

["Maloney, Michael" <MMaloney () middlesexcc edu>]

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.

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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 () middlesexcc edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sutton [mailto:pjsutton1 () yahoo com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:24 AM
To: dudevanwinkle () gmail com; Maloney, Michael
Cc: incidents () securityfocus com
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 () 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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