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