Increase in SMTP connections?

Any large-ish mail-receiving sites[1] seeing an increase in SMTP connections this week? I'm not necessarially talking about messages here, just connections. If so, please contact me off-list. Thanks. -- J.D. Falk "be crazy dumbsaint of the mind" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> -- Jack Kerouac [1] if you handle fewer than half a billion inbound messages daily, you ain't anywhere near large-ish by today's standards. sorry.