[Cialug] damn spammers

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Wed Nov 7 15:51:28 CST 2007


On 11/7/07, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
> Dave Weis wrote:
> >
> > My little mail forwarding experiment is working well. I was going
> > through the logs and between Nov 4 at 6 AM and now it's dropped 2.4
> > million emails. There have been a whopping 117 legitimate emails
> > forwarded onward.
>
> agreed, from our barracuda since 2007-12-27:
> Total: 6,967,030
> Allowed: 345,421

Google posted  a blog entry about the statistics from gmail:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-our-spam-filter-works.html

Seems like 70-80% of their mail is spam.

Jeff


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