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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=045585415-28022008><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Do you mean that you're catching spam
at about the 77% rate, or that of the mail that gets through about 77% of it is
still spam?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2><SPAN
class=045585415-28022008>I have two active mailscanners at the moment. At
the moment, the main one displays (per MailWatch) a high scoring catch rate of
72.6% and spam of 5.3. My lower priority mail server seems to be
purposely targeted by spammers and I see a 97% hit rate on it for high score
spam, and 1.6% for regular spam. It has a much lower connection count than
my regular server which indicates my main server is pretty much able to keep up
w/the inbound load so the traffic I see on the tier 2 server is probably almost
exclusively spam targeted at that server. Spammers often try to hit the
servers w/less priority. I guess they figure they're less likely to be up
to date or something.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>...Kevin<BR>--<BR>Kevin
Miller
Registered Linux User No: 307357<BR>CBJ MIS
Dept.
Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.<BR>155 South Seward
Street ph: (907) 586-0242<BR>Juneau, Alaska
99801 fax: (907
586-4500<BR> </FONT> </P>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Phil
Udel<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:27 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<BR><B>Subject:</B> Email
Statistics<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>I have been looking at my stats,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I was curious what other people get</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Current doing about 100,000 emails a month with a 77% Spam
hit.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Also many of my users have a 90% spam Hit.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Is that normal or average?</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
class=845292313-28022008><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>We are a average
company with about 250 mail boxes</FONT></SPAN></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>