On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > Does anyone with a large spam collection have good stats on the > average message size? > > I ask because I've been playing with the procmail rules that we use to > call spamc/spamd on wcnet.org a bit. I'm to the point now where I only > send messages to spamc that under 20KB in size. And I'm still > trapping between 40,000 - 60,000 spams per day.
I found that about 1% of spam is between 20 and 40k and about half a percent is bigger than that. However some (most maybe) of the larger stuff are virus sent from blackholed (RBL etc) sites. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
