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Does SPAM Peak on Wednesday?

Posted by Cliff on from the imagine-that dept.

danlor asks: "After installing a pretty good spam filter here at work, we noticed an interesting weekly trend in overall spam intercepts. They peak on Wednesday and trough o n Sunday. It is an almost perfect bell curve. We have gone over this quite a few times here, but cannot come to consensus on why this would be. Could Spammers really be God fearing? Why would Spammers have a 'hump' day?" Has anyone else noticed this trend?

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  1. Different Days by K_J_Raine · · Score: 3, Funny
    On my company's server we noticed two days that seemed to stand out in regards to spam - Wednesday and Saturday. The rest of the week seems to be rather flat - one or two spam emails.

    Of course getting inside the mind of a spammer would be something that would require danger pay.

    Hmm... all these people really need to know about herbal vigara... and I'll be the one to sell it to them!!

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  2. Re:Graphs? by DA-MAN · · Score: 3, Funny

    probably, but his momma didn't raise no fool!

    Posting graphics on Slashdot is a crazy thing to do, especially if you like being able to access your network!

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  3. Different for me. by xanderwilson · · Score: 3, Funny

    I get most of my spam on Sunday and Monday. It'll probably even out when my spammers and your spammers trade lists with each other.

    Alex.

  4. Spammer workweek speculation by Experiment+626 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Monday - Check mail from the weekend. If no new lawsuits, laze through the day like everyone else.

    Tuesday - Write some spam.

    Wednesday - Send out spam.

    Thursday - Await responses to spam.

    Friday - Deposit ill-gotten gains in the bank, take off early for the weekend.