From: Mike N. 

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:35:36 +0100, "Phil Payne"
 wrote:

>Today has been REALLY different.  I'd usually expect to find a couple of
>hundred or more spams in the sinbin - it's now just around a couple of
>dozen.  An order of magnitude reduction overnight.

  They may have added front end blocking to deal with the crushing blow of
millions of unthrottled bots blasting their spam and viruses.   Some sort
of blacklists, possibly combined with greylisting would have greatly
reduced the load to be analyzed and filtered, resulting in fewer in your
sinbox.

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