From: "Carl R. Friend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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....
<mumble> I should have commented, "10 users and ONLY 500-700 spams
a day? He's lucky!" On three email accounts I have that run through
spamassassin, 1 utterly undiscovered yet which is a junkmail account
anyway, 1 that I only use with three or four other people and never
for anything else (except I slipped up with shockwave registration
and used that account), and this account I get 200 to 400 spams a day.
All but a very small number seem to be to this account. So, what me
worry? If I took my account as a basis then the righteous amount of
spam per account per day is more than a mere 50-70. (The only reason
spam is not nearly 90% of my email is a trio of mailing lists I am on,
linux-kernel, redhat-fedora, and this one.)
{^_-}
