Yes, I have gotten lots of response and it is all VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!
Feel free to keep sending. I'll drop a 3 inch binder on his desk with all this info next time he complains :-)
I knew that my boss doesn't really understand how widespread the spam problem is, but it's refreshing to hear support from all of you!
Thanks!!
Bob Amen wrote:
Jason Granat wrote:
Hello,
I am under the gun to prove a point.
[...]
Would any of you be willing to divulge your spam statistics?
I know that you've already gotten a lot of stat but I might as well add ours too. Here is a message I sent to the company a couple of weeks ago:
There were 82,300 incoming email connections to our mail server.
Of those, we blocked 10,000 messages through a local blocking list that I maintain
and for improperly formed SMTP commands. The latter are mostly due to viruses and
trojaned home systems on DSL or cable that are being used as spam robots.
We blocked 13,000 attempts to deliver the MyDoom virus.
Our spam software (SpamAssassin) identified 49,000 spam messages and 11,000 clean
messages (after alias expansion). That means we get more than 4 spam messages for
each good message!
Cheers, Bob
