I filter mail for a little under 20,000 domains.  The user numbers vary all the 
time, but this month's stats show about 70,000 users.  We handle about 1.5 
million messages a day.

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Regards,

George

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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Murphy
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Mimedefang] Indication of list poster's mail volume required?

Perhaps it is time to encourage the list subscribers to publicise how many 
addresses they are filtering for, and what volume of traffic they see.  That 
way, when someone makes a contentious statement, we know it only affects them 
and their dog.

For example, when someone says "I've been blocking all mail claiming to be from 
Hotmail with an X-Outlook-Version header and never had a false positive", it 
would be useful to know whether they are a national ISP with 2 million 
customers using a cluster of 80 MD/SA hosts, or a keen geek with a Debian 
system on an old 386.  One sees several million messages per day, and the other 
under 100.  How much weight would you put on an opinion from either of them?

In this spirit of disclosure, having started using MIMEdefang about 8 years ago 
in organisations of a couple of hundred staff, I now use it just for my home 
addresses and a couple of low volume mailing lists, so
~80 users in total of which only 2 are local.  About 500 messages per week, so 
I'm on the lower end.  Previously, my corporate server handled
~15000 messages per day.

Paul.
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