On 9/12/22 1:50 PM, Brandon Long via mailop wrote:
I don't think they are the biggest source of spam by volume either,
Hum. :-/
but I think there is a very large amount of spam which targets just the large providers, or most of them.
Perhaps.
By their very nature, the personal servers that people are talking about here just don't see the same volume of spam.
I highly doubt that anything any individual could run in a personal scope could dream of even playing in the ball park of the big providers. It would take a farm of servers to have a prayer, and I think that's likely outside of the scope of personal / host it yourself system.
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.
Maybe I should have said that Gmail is perceived as the largest source of spam by volume.
I know that this is the case in many places I haunt, mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.
We deal with spam campaigns with message counts in the billions,
Hum. That causes me to pause and wonder if there is a lower threshold of minimum number of spam message count that people should even bother reporting to Gmail / Google. It seems like the reports that most people would make would fall way off the bottom as bit errors in counts that large.
I'm not sure how any personal server sees anything remotely representative of the big picture.
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