Strangely Quiet

I just wanted to comment on the fact that I haven't been very little email in my Inboxes lately. It's just plain weird. I have two Inboxes, one that I share with my wife for home and personal email and one that I use for work. Both of them have had an astonishingly low volume over the last few days.

I keep wondering if DreamHost (the provider for Hanenkamp.com) or work email is broken. Then, I have to remind myself that I have been getting a bit of email from important folks asking questions, requesting fixes, etc. at work. I've also gotten some email from friends and family at home. So, they aren't broken.

Then, I realize what is notoriously absent: spam. My spam volume has dropped to mysteriously low levels. Now, I'm not saying that actual spam sent to my accounts has dropped, but, at least momentarily, it would appear that SpamAssassin seems to have caught almost everything at home (DreamHost uses it) and work (we use it in CIS). I think I've deleted two or three spam messages in the last three or four days! That's incredible.

Still, the actual volume of spam coming in isn't really as high as I've come to expect either. Checking the Junk Mail report and the my Spam folder, I see that I've only received a dozen or so in the last day or two in both accounts. For awhile, I was seeing something like 30 to 50 spams per day. Now, they've dropped off to an almost tolerable level.

On the other hand, I've had to work a little harder keeping the spammers off my blog. In the last week, I've had to delete probably 10 or 20 spam messages to my blog. I may have to take counter-measures soon if this increases. The old Blosxom system may be losing the ability to post soon and I might drop the ability for anonymous posts here, or see if Drupal has some extensions to provide some antispam security for anonymous posting.

Anyway, I just thought this was an oddity worth blogging. Cheers.