Weekly spam summary on March 24th, 2007

This week, we:

  • got 12,733 messages from 249 different IP addresses.
  • handled 21,567 sessions from 1,259 different IP addresses.
  • received 197,829 connections from at least 58,846 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This is up from last week , althoughthe messages received count remains down from the usual levels.

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