Mail Traffic

[Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com>]

     Something is causing mail traffic to be extremely heavy today and
yesterday.  I am having a difficult time figuring out why. 

     There is a spammer who keeps sending to bogus addresses at
wa-state-resident.com, and he's relaying through third party sites, and keeps
rotating the sites he is using to relay so I can't effectively block them, but
that's a minor contribution at best.

     We found several mailing loops and killed them, but still traffic is
extraordinarily heavy.

     I am noticing that a lot of it's list traffic, and often it's lists that
traditionally have not had heavy traffic here.  I am wondering if perhaps there
is some new virus going around like Pretty Park, except perhaps it's tuned to
target lists somehow?  Maybe smart enough to subscribe itself.

     If anybody is aware of anything specific please let me know.