>Wolfgang Schelongowski wrote:
>
>> OTOH the flood of outscatter which started last September was stopped
>> a week ago by the SEC[1], as any mail admin will have noticed.
>
>I'm still seeing as much pump and dump spam as ever, but I'm not
>systematically collecting statistics.

Gr[ay]listing is your friend. Well, it's mine. - Again, all *outscatter* appears to have stopped, except two from demon.net telling me The message has not been collected after 30 days

That definitely means that spammers have stopped sending spam with addresses matching .*@xivic.prima.de as From and/or MAIL FROM.

[about SEC]
>Yes, but all they did was temporarily suspend trading in companies that
>were hyped in pump and dump spam. They didn't use their money, guns and
>lawyers to actually go after the spammers. See ...

Maybe they did merely use broken toothpricks, but: No more outscatter received here. -- The first entry of Sin into the mind occurs when, out of cowardice or conformity or vanity, the Real is replaced by a comforting lie. -- Integritas, Consonantia, Claritas