Hello Kelly,
Friday, November 24, 2006, 8:28:38 PM, you wrote:
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
Well, I run a small ISP with about 3,000 mailboxes, we receive about
50k messages per day. Of that, on average 39-44k are
Fred T wrote:
Hello Kelly,
Friday, November 24, 2006, 8:28:38 PM, you wrote:
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
Well, I run a small ISP with about 3,000 mailboxes, we receive about
50k messages per day. Of
Hi,
Really what are the tools you're using and/or suggesting to generate such
reports?
Regards,
Leon
-Original Message-
From: Quinn Comendant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:41 AM
To: SpamAssassin Users
Subject: Re: Percentage of email that is spam
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, Kelly Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools
used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Rick Macdougall wrote:
Ed Kasky wrote:
At 02:00 PM Monday, 11/27/2006, Bill Randle wrote -=
Like other posters, I don't have real stats on the amount of spam that
makes it past the filters, other than my own mailbox. I typically get
from 2-3 spam messages per day, on rare
What is being used to generate these summaries?
Q
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:03:55 -0500, Rick Macdougall wrote:
Ed Kasky wrote:
At 02:00 PM Monday, 11/27/2006, Bill Randle wrote -=
Like other posters, I don't have real stats on the amount of spam that
makes it past the filters, other than my
Out of total mail hitting our server 12.99% is legit and delivered. You read
correctly, 12.99%!!
65% is rejected at MTA w/ RBLs
21% is caught by Spamassassin and not delivered.
12.99% is legit and delivered.
0.01% is spam that sneaks thru and delivered
HTH,
Chris Santerre
SysAdmin and
Chris Santerre wrote:
Out of total mail hitting our server 12.99% is legit and delivered. You
read correctly, 12.99%!!
65% is rejected at MTA w/ RBLs
I wonder what percentage of this 65% is legit and blocked.
21% is caught by Spamassassin and not delivered.
12.99% is legit and delivered.
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 08:43 -0800, Bret Miller wrote:
I'd like something quasi-official if possible, so I can tell my
bosses: according to this report, even with diligent spam filtering,
xx% of the email people receive is still spam. If fewer than xx% of
your email is spam, we're ahead of
Jim Maul wrote:
Chris Santerre wrote:
Out of total mail hitting our server 12.99% is legit and delivered.
You read correctly, 12.99%!!
According to mrtg, the average across my servers is 85% spam on a good
day, 99% on a bad day. Currently we are looking at 86%. It's Monday,
lots of business
-Original Message-
From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:12 PM
To: Chris Santerre
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?
Chris Santerre wrote:
Out of total mail hitting our server
Chris Santerre wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:12 PM
To: Chris Santerre
Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?
Chris Santerre wrote:
Out
On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:41 AM, John Tice wrote:
spams per week. In the past week I've had two spams get through and
one false positive. And the FP almost doesn't count because was
borderline spammy and had a forged rcvd. I guess if you must have
zero FP for a diverse group then you
Like other posters, I don't have real stats on the amount of spam that
makes it past the filters, other than my own mailbox. I typically get
from 2-3 spam messages per day, on rare occasions, maybe 6-10. We use
blacklisting, the SARE rules, ImageInfo, FuzzyOCR and local custom
rules.
Our overall
At 02:00 PM Monday, 11/27/2006, Bill Randle wrote -=
Like other posters, I don't have real stats on the amount of spam that
makes it past the filters, other than my own mailbox. I typically get
from 2-3 spam messages per day, on rare occasions, maybe 6-10. We use
blacklisting, the SARE rules,
Ed Kasky wrote:
At 02:00 PM Monday, 11/27/2006, Bill Randle wrote -=
Like other posters, I don't have real stats on the amount of spam that
makes it past the filters, other than my own mailbox. I typically get
from 2-3 spam messages per day, on rare occasions, maybe 6-10. We use
blacklisting,
Vivek Khera wrote:
On my personal mail, the amount of spam seeping through the filters is
small. On our help desk (which includes our abuse desk) at work, we
only do greylisting since obviously any abuse from our network needs to
be able to get reported :-( This leads to a *lot* of crap in
: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?
As you note, blocking 95% of all spam will end up with various spam/ham
ratios in the inbox, and that depends on the original spam/ham ratio. If
50% of all incoming email was spam (which is about what I see) then blocking
95% of it would get me
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:51:23 -0600, Bookworm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
Kelly Jones wrote:
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools
used,
I am always amazed to hear how much gets through on corporate
systems. My wife works in a corporate office with a dedicated IT
department and she says 60-70% of their total received is spam. I
would think that number to be intolerable. For instance, I have a VPS
and host about a dozen
which woul otherwise slip through).
Cheers,
Phil
-Original Message-
From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 1:29 AM
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?
I know that most (90%+) email sent now
I'd like something quasi-official if possible, so I can tell my
bosses: according to this report, even with diligent spam filtering,
xx% of the email people receive is still spam. If fewer than xx% of
your email is spam, we're ahead of the curve.
I only filter mail for myself, and I'm
Thanks to everyone who is replying here. Additional replies/comments
always appreciated.
What started me thinking about this is this non-intuitive but
mathematically valid paradox that Bookworm and others have noticed:
If 95% of all email is spam, and I correctly tell users that I block
95% of
From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to everyone who is replying here. Additional replies/comments
always appreciated.
What started me thinking about this is this non-intuitive but
mathematically valid paradox that Bookworm and others have noticed:
If 95% of all email is
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:59:52 -0700, Kelly Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to everyone who is replying here. Additional replies/comments
always appreciated.
What started me thinking about this is this non-intuitive but
mathematically valid paradox that Bookworm and others have noticed:
If
John Tice wrote:
I am always amazed to hear how much gets through on corporate systems.
My wife works in a corporate office with a dedicated IT department and
she says 60-70% of their total received is spam. I would think that
number to be intolerable. For instance, I have a VPS and host
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools
used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find that only 10% of
the messages they receive are spam? 25%? 50%?
Kelly Jones wrote:
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools
used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find that only 10% of
the messages they receive are
Marc Perkel wrote:
Kelly Jones wrote:
I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
numbers for people who use spam filtering?
I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false positives, tools
used, etc, but do people who use spam filtering find that only 10% of
the
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