On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, 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.
As others have already mentioned, he's wrong; the problem is endemic. Here's last week's numbers from a small ISP in Rhode Island I volunteer time and energy to: Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 22608 Number of spams : 16111 ( 71.26%) Number of clean messages : 6497 ( 28.74%) Average message analysis time : 4.85 seconds Average spam analysis time : 4.56 seconds Average clean message analysis time : 5.56 seconds Average message score : 9.74 Average spam score : 13.71 Average clean message score : -0.11 Total spam volume : 83 Mbytes Total clean volume : 40 Mbytes This represents about 60 users that are availing themselves of our SpamAssassin engine, and said engine is configured with quite a few custom rules, but no "bigevil", "backhair", "popcorn", or the like. Something tells me that the spam percentage is a wee bit on the low side in there, but there hasn't been any complaining.... +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------+ | http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
