On Thursday 06 June 2002 09:12 pm, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
> Does anyone with a large spam collection have good stats on the
> average message size?

> I ask because I've been playing with the procmail rules that we use to
> call spamc/spamd on wcnet.org a bit. I'm to the point now where I only
> send messages to spamc that under 20KB in size.  And I'm still
> trapping between 40,000 - 60,000 spams per day.

Well, in my spam corpus of 1366 messages, the average size is 8726 bytes.  
93.1% of them are 20KB or smaller, 95.3% are 25KB or smaller, and 98.0% are 
30KB or smaller (this is excluding viruses).  Of the 95 thaat are larger than 
20K, 89.5% are smaller than 50K.

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