People are social. We like to show off, to talk, to be heard, and byextension to share. There's every sign that "look at me" is a corehuman drive, along with its kissing cousin "look at this".

This sounds like an obvious thing, but then a number of people turnaround and wonder why there are so many people using LiveJournal (and ina prior era, making homepages on GeoCities). The former explains thelatter: we blog because people look

As mentioned in this week's spam summary ,this week I decided to change our SMTP frontend's configuration to getstatistics on the CBL that were better thanmy previous quick SMTP connection stats . Nowthat this week's up, the results are in:

• the CBL rejected 41% of our incoming SMTP connections this week.
• 75% of the connection we rejected were rejected for being in the CBL.
• more tellingly, 85% of the IP addresses that we rejected atconnection time were rejected

This week's statistics are atypical, because in pursuit of better CBLstatistics I moved our CBL check before all of our other connection timechecks (including our greylisting) and pretty much stopped adding IPaddresses to our kernel filters during the week.

Bearing that in mind, this week we:

• got 12,845 messages from 226 different IP addresses.
• handled 17,723 sessions from 788 different IP addresses.
• received 141,631 connections from at

Here's the sort of command line I can wind up typing:

spam/wtd daemon | expsyslog.pl | tcpwrhits -i | sed 10q |while (read foo) { n=`{echo $foo}; echo '| '^$n '|' `{checksmtp $n(2)}; }

(This will probably be wrapped in your browser, but it is all one line.)

I wrote that on the fly, in one pass, although I had