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On 12 Mar 2008, at 14:50, Oliver Humpage wrote:

> false negatives). I love the dip after each Christmas, when techies  
> visit
> parents and disinfect their PCs. So far this month, looks like  
> total spam
> will hit 310k+, whilst the amount slipping through will be back  
> around 0.1%.

I was wondering about this.  I noticed a dip in spam over christmas/ 
new year, which made me think that there must be a human element  
controlling the output at some point.  I would have thought that the  
spam would have been sent automatically in the background whilst the  
spammers are sitting down eating their turkey, but maybe even they  
take a break?  Or maybe the people funding them to send the mail are  
too busy eating their turkey to want them to send out spam...?  Who  
knows...

-Matt

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