>-----Original Message----- >From: Kang , Joseph S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:56 PM >To: Spamassassin-Users (users@spamassassin.apache.org) >Subject: [OT]: Charting the history of SPAM > > >I got this off of boingboing.net: > >"I [Raymond Chen, Microsoft] have kept every single piece of >spam and virus >email since mid-1997. Occasionally, it comes in handy, for >example, to add >naïve Bayesian spam filter to my custom-written email filter. And >occasionally I use it to build a chart of spam and virus email. > >The following chart plots every single piece of spam and virus >email that >arrived at my work email address since April 1997. Blue dots >are spam and >red dots are email viruses. The horizontal axis is time, and >the vertical >axis is size of mail (on a logarithmic scale). Darker dots >represent more >messages. (Messages larger than 1MB have been treated as if >they were 1MB.)
*snip* "Totals: 227.6MB of spam in roughly 19,000 messages. 61.8MB of viruses in roughly 3500 messages." He don't get much spam! I thought I was on the low side, but this number seems really low for the timeline. I think a few people on the list do this in an hour :) Hardly enough to measure the spam level of the Interweb. --Chris
