On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:40:37AM +0300, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: > http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/features/article.php/11321_3102341_1 > You think you've got spam problems with a hundred or so spam messages a > day? Try being an ISP or a business where on a good day you don't get > more than a one hundred thousand spam mails a day. > > "You can't believe it's that much. Think again. How bad is it? Ferris > Research, a San Francisco- and London-based email and groupware analysis > firm, says that 30% of inbound email is spam at ISPs, while at > companies, spam accounts for 15% to 20% of inbound email. 'In 2002,' > Ferris says, 'the total cost of spam to corporate organizations in the > United States was $8.9 billion.' > > -- > **************** ***************************** > Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### > KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# > Plot 80 Kanjokya Street > P.O. Box 173 Kampala, Uganda > Tel: +256 77 972255 > +256 71 221141 > Fax: +256 31 262122 > *************************************************************************
Hi all, This sounds as real as it is. Whe you get 90% of your inbound emails tagged as spam then you can be sure that something is not right. Just a thought but how effective have you guys gotten the Bayesian perl:SpanAssasin module working? I know it requires alot of training i found the defaults to work just fine. Kabagambe Kenneth Low-level Systems Administrator - I dont pretend to know more than I do. I try to learn that which I dont know - --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
