Mimi and all -
Our experience here at the UW, running email for something greater
than 50k users, is that, as of last month, 65% of the incoming
messages are scored by our spam filter (PureMessage) as having a >50%
chance of being spam. We're processing more than fifteen spam
messages per second, on average.
Those figures are somewhat lower than I heard reported by the folks
who run one of the huge free public web-mail services last month.
- Oren
On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Mimi Yin wrote:
I have 5 personal email addresses that I never give out to any web
services / on-line retailers, with perhaps 3 exceptions...and I
basically don't get any SPAM.
2 of these addresses I've had for a couple of months. 1 of the
email addresses (gmail), I've had for a almost 1.5 years? 1 email
address I've had for almost 7 years. The last email address, I've
had for over 10 years. I know that the 10 year-old email address
has been submitted at least 10 times to various websites by
friends: nyt.com, evite, networking sites, etc.
I don't have whitelists, blacklists, special filters or anything.
Is it just the magic server-side SPAM filters?
I have 2 spammy email addresses (yahoo and hotmail). I get 'spam'
from online etailers where I've signed up for accounts using these
email addresses. But I don't get much 'unsolicited' spam.
My OSAF email I get tons of spam, even though I've never
intentionally handed it out, but it's publicly available through
our mailing list archive?
How naive is it to hope that the email addresses we provide for
shared collections could escape SPAM the way my personal email
addresses seem to have escaped SPAM? (It seems unlikely that users
will use their [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address
to sign up for accounts on web sites.)
Is ' we don't have resources to implement an effective server-side
SPAM solution' an argument for shifting the burden of preventing/
managing SPAM onto the user in the short-term?
What are other people's experiences with email accounts and SPAM?
Mimi
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