Spam in 2008

The general consensus on the spam situation is that it's just going to keep getting worse until an updated mail protocol is adopted. I've accepted this and can deal with it; as the spammers come out with new tricks, new methods for dealing with those tricks come out.

I was surprised to see that overall in 2008 the amount of spam aimed at Harley actually went down!

There was a pretty big reduction near the middle of November that I think can be attributed to the shutdown of the internet service provider McColo. We only saw a small decrease, but according to that article right after they were disconnected a 60% decrease in spam was detected! I can't believe if one ISP is responsible for that much spam, why weren't they shutdown sooner?