On 9 Dec 2024 11:59:50 -0500, John Levine via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
wrote:
>What sort of numbers to people here see? Are there any credible
>published estimates? Way too many of the numbers I see are basically
>someone says I set up a mailbox and counted mail messages for a week
>and then multiplied by ten billion.
A very typical example, from the logs for the past seven days (domains are
down to two active users here):
Connection attempts: 9745
SMTP Sessions: 4376 (includes lots of 'EHLO localhost'-type rejections)
Messages received: 1569
Classified not-spam: 716
... about 54% spam, unless you include all the other hostile access attempts,
in which case it would be at least 92%, FSVO "spam".
mdr
--
The world was almost won by such an ape!
The nations put him where his kind belong.
But do not rejoice too soon at your escape.
The womb he crawled from is still going strong.
-- Bertold Brecht,"The Resistible Rise of Arturo UI"
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