This week, we:

• got 10,108 messages from 265 different IP addresses.
• handled 22,107 sessions from 2,055 different IP addresses.
• received 271,991 connections from at least 75,816 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 13 connections being checked at once.

Volume is definitely up from last week .As the per day table illustrates, spammers seem to still preferWednesday for their big day:

The problem with forwarding all email for users is that much of the timeyou wind up forwarding spam email as a result, sometimes a great deal ofit. That is: your mail servers wind up sending spam email, often a lotof it, to the places that your users have forwarded their emails. Thereare two consequences of this.

First, these days large Internet providers like Yahoo don't care whyyou're sending them spam, they just care that you are. When you do sendthem

We have some current rackmount servers from Sun and HP. They both comewith convenient, built in remote management systems that are basicallyequivalent from my perspective; each has remote power control, KVMover IP, and virtual media . There's only one importantdifference between the two: Sun gives me this for free as part of thebase server but HP wants a few hundred dollars to give me a licensethat enables the useful features (KVM over IP and virtual media).

I suspect you can guess whose servers