Good morning, Jason,
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jason Granat wrote:
> I am under the gun to prove a point. We have a spambox account that
> catches roughly 500-700 spams per day, company wide. We have about 10
> highly active email users. My boss thinks it's rediculous that so much
> spam is being sent to us. Very little spam actually gets to the users.
> He's upset that spam comes in at all. He thinks it's just our
> organization that receives all this spam. What I would like to have is
> some typical statistics to show him that it's not just our orginization
> that receives spam. Are there any resources out there to look this up?
> Would any of you be willing to divulge your spam statistics?
In one Spamassassin installation covering 52 email addresses, we
recieved just under 36,000 spams in the last 35 days. I personally got
9924 in February, 330/day (that's up from 120/day around this time last
year).
Cheers,
- Bill
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