[AJD] Delay in messages

[David Bruce]

Spencer,
My ISP provides anti-virus/spam detection and removal.  In the case of spam the 
message is sidelined to a folder on their server where I can look at it and view 
it if desired.  I've recently subscribed to some new mailing lists so I was 
wondering if the upturn I'm seeing is due to a general increase or related to 
the new mail list subscriptions.  Thanks.

David
NW NC

Spencer Yost wrote:
> My anti-spam/anit-virus service provider provides a report on thier
> activities to me every day and there is a slight upsurge in the volume they
> are rejecting, but within the bounds of "normal".   I know "script kiddies"
> hackers (hacker that try to inject scripts into your system to send out
> SPAM) are very busy these days, and since these scripts are one of the more
> common sources of SPAM, anecdotally I would say the problem would have to
> be larger than typical.  In fact I spent more than 3 hours on Friday night
> babysitting the system through a storm of attacks( for the sys admins:
> r0nin and other /tmp attacks) making sure they weren't doing something new
> I was not protected against.
> 
> Spencer Yost
> Owner, ATIS
> Plow the Net!
> http://www.atis.net
>