Bart Schaefer wrote: BS> Consider the free email services (hotmail, yahoo, etc.), or even AOL's BS> web-based mail interface. How many users do they have to support? How BS> many non-spam messages a day do their servers generate? I'll bet the BS> total dwarfs the biggest spammers by many orders of magnitude -- and think BS> about the number of messages they must *receive*, even discounting spam. BS> How much computing power will *they* have to deploy to make this kind of BS> system work? What makes you think it would ever happen?
I understand that Hotmail processes about 2e9 emails per day. With lulls and peak times, that means about 80k messages per second at peak times. I also understand that something on the order of 95% of their inbound mail is spam. Probably a much lower rate of the outbound messages. C _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
