Jason Granat wrote:
Hello,
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?
Thanks,
Jason
So you're averaging about 50-70 spams per day coming into your system to "highly active email users"? Consider yourself lucky. If anything, they may be low.
For us, SA is currently tagging around 44% spam. Getting some FN since required_hits is set to 8 (ISP, with some users that get very touchy about email).
We're using all the RDJ rules, a bunch of RBLs (including an internal one composed of prior spammers), a handful of custom rules, plus site-wide bayes (with a lazy admin who doesn't train as often as he should).
We're running a few RBLs at the gateways (ORDB, DSBL, and I think spamhaus), which helps keep the cruft out. Our largest domains are also getting virus scanned (amavis+clamAV) at the MX gateways, which keeps the total numbers down during worm floods like the last few days.
--Rich
