Seminary Computing Services

As I noted in an earlier post, the amount of spam that we turn away at our network perimiter started to increase in early December, settling in at an average of around 250,000 messages a day. Yesterday, we saw a spike in those numbers, rejecting 984,386 spam messages in one 24 hour period.

I call that a good day's work; our systems were able to turn those messages away without any adverse effects on the speed of our internet connection, and many other resources (email server processing time, email server disk space, person-hours deleting email) were available for better use.

Having said that, I'd rather not have this become a regular occurance!