Pete McNeil
Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:36:59 -0700
I can verify this also. See: http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/ChangeRates.jsp
Over the past 6 weeks or so we have seen typical daily rule change rates rise from about 250 to about 450. Change rates are primarily a measure of the number of new rules generated per day. Over the weekends we see blocking rates rise toward 90%. Average blocking rates are on the order of 77% or better consistently. (Based on logs reported from approximately 115 systems) http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Performance/FlowRates.jsp _M On Monday, June 7, 2004, 4:12:41 PM, Matt wrote: M> We've been seeing a steady increase in spam ever since I started keeping M> track, in fact the change in the percentage of spam vs. legitimate M> E-mail is noticeably higher on a weekly basis, every single week. Right M> now we are blocking about 85% of everything that comes in on weekdays, M> and +95% of everything that comes in on weekends. Thankfully, unlike M> Postini's customers, ours haven't noticed a thing :) M> Sorry for the dig at Postini, but their block rates suck as well as M> those of the other large players, and it's beyond me why they can't M> figure out how to do a better job. Besides, they lie about their actual M> block rates and they put an unfair burden on the client. M> Matt M> Robert Smith wrote: >>Is anyone else seeing a dramatic decrease in the volume of incoming email? >> >>We got our problem fixed with Postini (our problem actually, had to kill >>IMonitor) but I'm still seeing numbers that are only 50% of our norm. No >>errors in the logs that I can find other than spammers that can't get >>through. (send error 10054 on known spamming IP's) >> >> >>Robert Smith >>Futur@ ISP >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>501-374-3888 >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>List Archive: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >>Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/