I am coming to the conclusion that my problem is strictly local. Anything else would have made the national news by now.
But I am still waiting for 300+ messages from the last week, and some mail received yesterday had been sent 1 or 2 days earlier. And my ISP has stopped responding to my inquiries, since no one is there over the weekend.
My e-mail server is on my roommate’s co-located box – it’s fairly small-- as far as I know it has less than six users on it.
It’s been pretty sporadic since SoBig hit – I’ve had reports of mail being bounced back to people who are trying to contact me, and several times I’ve been unable to send mail – I get a “disk full” error back from my POP server.
I’m trying to encourage other users to leave their mail clients open and set to retrieve mail every fifteen minutes or so, so the crap at least gets where it’s “supposed” to go, instead of jamming up the server. (I set up a mail account for my mum, and I’ve been amazed to see her inbox fill up with 500+ messages which then get autodeleted by her spam filter – in the space of an hour.)
My roommate works at ActiveState, and he says they’ve made significant hardware upgrades to handle the extra load, and that even without figuring that in, the extra bandwidth usage alone has cost their budget for the last month plenty.
I sincerely hope the vandals responsible serve some time in prison – but not so much time that they’re unable to spend the rest of their working lives paying off at least a portion of the damages awarded in civil suits. Bastids.
I got up to about 300 per day, then it dropped the other day to about 25…
Perhaps the worm was only dated to go that long?
According to Antivirus.com, about the sobig.f worm:
I think any drop in activity this soon is the result of awareness and filters. Without them, every mailbox and server from here to Mars would have filled up long ago.