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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.