I guess you're just lucky. I regularly see 5-10 pieces a day at each account, including work, public and private - either in my inbox or caught in quarantine, it's about a 50-50 mix.
Kurt On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Why isn't it true? How much is "too much spam"? > > From my perspective, I guess that most people in the world get little or no > spam, despite 99+% of all mail being sent on the internet being spam. I don't > recall receiving a single piece of spam in the past 10 years at my work > accounts, and even at home, I seem to be getting a few pieces a day/max. > > For my Outlook.com and Gmail.com accounts, I'd say one piece a month would be > the norm. > > Whilst you might not "consider that solved", I don't see it as a big issue. > Certainly not one where you need to be taking hallucinogens to agree with the > statement. > > Cheers > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Sunday, 19 January 2014 9:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) > > Because it isn't true. We have a Barracuda 4xx series appliance, and use > several RBLs, and we still get far too much spam, much of it phishing. Also, > as noted by another poster, most email flowing through the world is still > spam. > > I'm sure that there are better solutions than the Barracuda, but none of them > are anywhere near perfect. Actually, when I had Maia Mailguard running, I > found it superior to the Barracuda, but it still wasn't extremely good. > > Kurt > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why do you disagree with the statement? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Saturday, 18 January 2014 3:55 AM >> To: Kurt Buff >> Subject: [NTSysADM] Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT) >> >> "spam is a largely solved problem in email" - I want some of the drugs the >> author is taking. >> >> Kurt >> >> http://qz.com/167817/someones-refrigerator-just-took-part-in-a-malicio >> us-cyberattack/ >> >> > >
