Off topic - Spam Increase

[Stephen Swaney]

I just received this post from a very reputable source. I thought it worth
posting to the list in case you need some statistics to help buy the book:

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at, Someone wrote:

> Around 2000 we turned off (de-MXed) two domains that were receiving 
> 140,000 spams per day.
> 
> Around Feb of 2003, I got curious, and turned them on again.
> 
> 600,000 spams per day.
> 
> A month later, 1,000,000.
> 
> Now it's hovering around 6-8 million.

My calculations indicate that's a 4,286% to 5,714% increase in 6 years! Good
this we have MailScanner, SpamAssassin and all the extras :)

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
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