Thanksgiving Spam

[Don Mannino]

Ric,

A large percentage of e-mail spam is generated by 'bots,' software that has 
infected the computers of unsuspecting owners.  These nasty little programs 
hog bandwidth and send e-mail without ever showing themselves, and they can 
be hard to remove.  Since many people leave their computers off on holidays 
(especially businesses), the spam traffic definitely goes down on 'off' 
days.

Don Mannino



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: Thanksgiving Spam


> Hi folks
>
> I susppose by  now most of you have digested your 18 lbs turkeys and 
> watched enough commercials with your football that you are getting back to 
> your puter seats and checking out your email.
>
> I noticed something rather curious this year.  On Friday...the day after 
> and continuing up to now so far the level of spam in my email box has 
> dropped dramatically. Nothing to do with our internet company... I 
> checked.
> Which makes me wonder... do spammers celebrate Thanksgiving ?  If so... 
> perhaps they dont all come from obscure third world pirate countries after 
> all :)
>
> I'll be interested to see if things get back to normal on monday
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>