On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:24:27AM -0400, Scott Blomquist wrote:
> 
> 
> Simon Byrnand wrote:
> 
> >>We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we
> >>have noticably more spam by volume than real mail.
> > 
> > 
> > Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43% ham. And thats not counting viruses,
> > which get blocked before spamassassin even runs.
> > 
> > Kinda makes you wonder where the world is heading when more email is junk
> > than legitimate :/
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Simon
> 
> Here are the stats from my last several weeks:
> Week ending   13-Sep  20-Sep  27-Sep  4-Oct   11-Oct
> Clean         6111    6099    5658    6175    5490
> Spam          7982    7626    8432    9477    10555
>                                       
> Total         14093   13725   14090   15652   16045
>                                       
> Pct Clean     43%     44%     40%     39%     34%
> Pct SPAM      57%     56%     60%     61%     66%
> 
> It is getting progressively worse.

Here are some Fridays. Ignore the "rejected by ruleset" column;
I added a bunch of rules to it Oct 9. The "total mails undelivered" 
column tells the tale -- the more so, now that the virus count column
is negligible. 

         Mails   spamassassin   rejected      scanner       total mails
         Total   says 'spam'    by ruleset    says virus    undelivered
 Oct  10  5534  1221 (22.06%)  952 (17.20%)   47 ( 0.85%)  2220 (40.12%)
 Oct   3  6007  1930 (32.13%)  309 ( 5.14%)   56 ( 0.93%)  2295 (38.21%)
 Sep  26  6214  2109 (33.94%)  304 ( 4.89%)   75 ( 1.21%)  2488 (40.04%)
 Sep  19  6373  1966 (30.85%)  373 ( 5.85%)  158 ( 2.48%)  2497 (39.18%)
 Sep  12  5478  1760 (32.13%)  333 ( 6.08%)   13 ( 0.24%)  2106 (38.44%)
 Sep   5  5555  1450 (26.10%)  447 ( 8.05%)  363 ( 6.53%)  2260 (40.68%)

The "undelivered" fraction appears to be roughly constant over the 6
Fridays in this sample, but it has been rising over the past several
months.

Those not familiar with the story of "Nadine" should have a careful 
look at Michael Rathbun's site 
<http://www.honet.com/Nadine/default.htm> 
or one of its mirrors for a tale of Things Gone Horribly Wrong. 

Another of his sites, <http://www.tesp.com/tespUBErate.htm>,
shows spam rates there over the past 30+ months, and should 
prove both instructing and horrifying. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tired old sysadmin 


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