Information on 50% drop in spam starting Christmas 2010

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Published on 2011-01-10T18:39:31Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 18:55 UTC
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Has anybody who administers email servers or spam filtering noticed that in last couple of weeks the spam volume has dropped significantly? Is there a chart provided by one of the major spam filtering companies?

Edit: Based on our internal stats, although it varies, on the two weeks starting the day after Christmas (Sunday), spam seems to be coming in about half as much as it did before Christmas.

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