> From: Jason Granat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
How much of that spam is deliverable (that is, RCPT'd to an existing address?) I found that when I started rejecting invalid email addresses at the RCPT stage my spam percentage went WAY down (from about 75% to about 40%). What happens is about half of the incoming spam is to a nonexistent email address. Rejecting it before the DATA phase saves bandwidth too.
