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?

ISP filter server, ~300 accounts.

SA has processed 7071 messages so far today.

6034 were tagged as spam, and filed in per-user spam folders.

1037 were not tagged and were delivered as "good" email.

Yesterday:
17809 messages scanned
15747 tagged as spam
2062 not tagged

Stats for other days look very similar;  mostly between 10:1 and 15:1
spam:ham.  Ugh.  :(

Note that not all mail on this box gets scanned;  I have procmail rules
for my own account that file this list and several others (~200-300
messages/day) without calling SA on them.

This also does not include messages discarded at the MTA level as
viruses.

-kgd
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technical reasons why it requires the sacrificing of a live chicken."
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