Reduction in Spam?

[Glenn Steen]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

On 21/12/05, Martin Hepworth <martinh at solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
> Quite
>
> The article does seem confused about where the reduction is.....
>
> My stats do NOT concur with theres. Over the last 6 months I still an
> increase...
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> > Behalf Of Drew Marshall
> > Sent: 21 December 2005 09:18
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: [MAILSCANNER] Reduction in Spam?
> >
> > I am not convinced by this article as my stats read quite differently!
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4547474.stm
> >
> > The interesting quote is '"similarly report a decrease in the amount of
> > spam reaching consumers' inboxes"'
> >
> > Perhaps this is because of the amount of mail being processed by
> > MailScanner on a daily basis?
> >
> > Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year all!
> >
> > Drew
> >
> >

CC...
I'm not say it is so, but one has to wonder about the report as
such... It has been know to happen that government agencies do one of
a) "release a scare" or
b) pat themselves on the back (in a *big* way)
... when a new fiscal period rolls around (when it's time for some new
funding...:). At least Livsmedelsverket (approximately the same as
FDA...) here in sweden has done some fairly publicised a)s... This
looks more like a b) :-):-).

--
-- Glenn
email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!