On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:26 AM Grant Taylor via mailop <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/12/22 5:13 AM, Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: > > What bothers me most is that the oligopoly makes it impossible to > > deliver emails to protect their users from spam, yet it is the biggest > > source of it… > > Does anyone have any evidence that shows that the big players are the > biggest source of spam /by/ /percentage/ of outgoing messages? > > I absolutely agree that they are the biggest source of spam /by/ /volume/. > > Sadly even a super tiny percentage of a huge volume is still a big > volume in and of itself. It's just math. > I don't think they are the biggest source of spam by volume either, but I think there is a very large amount of spam which targets just the large providers, or most of them. By their very nature, the personal servers that people are talking about here just don't see the same volume of spam. Gmail certainly receives an order of magnitude more spam attempts each day than all of the email that gmail sends. So, no, we are not the biggest source by volume. We deal with spam campaigns with message counts in the billions, I'm not sure how any personal server sees anything remotely representative of the big picture. Brandon
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