[PLUG] Spam Counts (was: Customer Service from Hell)
Bill Thoen
bthoen at gisnet.com
Wed Jun 30 17:25:03 UTC 2004
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> Here are my numbers from home:
>
> total caught
> month msgs spam %
> ------- ----- ------ --
> 2004-01 5746 1494 26
> 2004-02 5377 1866 34
> 2004-03 5189 2339 45
> 2004-04 5557 2812 50
> 2004-05 5530 2738 49
> 2004-06 6029 3008 49
What's significant to me is not the percentages, but that the raw numbers
of spam are increasing. What do we do when there's so much spam coming in
that it amounts to a DOS attack?
Or perhaps the rise you're seeing is really due to better filters? I was
keeping track of it up to about the first week of June, and my load is
pretty steady now at about 130-150 per day, which is actually down from
about 170/day in March and April. It's roughly 2/3 spam now.
- Bill
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