I can confirm the 80%: Mail stats since: Mar 9 04:02:10 Total mail scanned:11335683 Total viruses stopped: 235807 Total spam found: 9016304 Spam percentage: 79.54
:-) cheers maurizio On mer, 2007-10-17 at 12:07 -0400, James E. Pratt wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:58 AM > >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: Bit OT but it's about SPAM > >> > >> On 10/17/07, Tom Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I just thought if anyone hasn't read it yet, this article might be > >> > interesting to many of you. According to this report SPAM has now > >> > reached being 95% of all email. > >> > >> This is hyperbole. > >> > >> What it really means is that 95% of the mail processed by someone's > >> commercial spam filter has been classified, possibly incorrectly, as > >> spam. The rates are much lower (though still too high for comfort) > if > >> false positives are accounted for. > >> > >> See, for example: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.14617 > > Ok.. so in reality, it's more like 80-85% no matter how you dice it ... > still way too much... :\ >
