If I count 550 denials, and spam caught, ~60% of email delivered/'attempted to deliver' is spam.
Only 14% of total email traffic gets thru DNSRBLs, and caught as spam. Less then 1% make it thru to a user. HTH, --Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Granat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 11:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Spam Statistics > > > 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 >
