If i thought yesterday was bad, today was worse. The most sustained part of the attack happened between 02:30 and 09:00 today:
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Here's the weekly graph:
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Let's hope we're through the worst of it now!
If i thought yesterday was bad, today was worse. The most sustained part of the attack happened between 02:30 and 09:00 today:
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Here's the weekly graph:
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Let's hope we're through the worst of it now!
Today, my mail server had its first-ever spambot attack. On my normally quiet system, over 2500 messages from over 1200 unique IP addresses were greylisted, and over 650 messages from more than 550 unique IP addresses made it through my greylist and were caught sending spam to invalid addresses on my system.
This graph shows the effects on my otherwise quiet server:

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Stuart Semmens has a blog with some great photos of Tasmania. Check it out!
And while you're at it, check out Cameron Semmens' web site as well. He's a very funny and creative poet and performer who specialises in telling Bible stories by alliteration. Here's some video i took of one of his performances.
Visit this site to find out if yours is one of them!
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