Off topic - Spam Increase

[Martin Hepworth]

Steve

More info from a good source - me ;-)

I started here in Sep 2000 - average number of emails per month (say 30
days) was 7,000 (including spam). In and out...

Now we're getting ~16,000 messages per day! Only 7-800 (hundred yes) actual
non spam emails (in and outbound in both totals).

So a 60x increase in about the same period as your source nearly all of it
is spam!

--
Martin Hepworth 
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Stephen Swaney
> Sent: 27 April 2006 17:06
> To: 'MailScanner discussion'
> Subject: Off topic - Spam Increase
> 
> 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
> www.fsl.com
> 
> 
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