Hello Kelly, Friday, November 24, 2006, 8:28:38 PM, you wrote:
> I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the > numbers for people who use spam filtering? Well, I run a small ISP with about 3,000 mailboxes, we receive about 50k messages per day. Of that, on average 39-44k are blocked by SA for scoring 6+ points. From what slips in, I created a simple VB program to use spamassassin to scan the messages sitting in the inboxes. In the last few days of running, it's identified 12,404 spam and 72,520 ham. Since the spammers make huge runs and then change or disappear for a while, I needed a method to clean my maildir almost like real-time virus scanning. Except I'm just running my scanners on free CPU of various workstations, if my program ID's spam in someone's mailbox, it removes it and I verify it and add to my corpus. According to my numbers, about 17% of mail passing SA is considered spam by the time I'm done writing rules after it's already entered my system. I block at 6.0 and use no RBL's. I do write custom rules daily. -- Best regards, Fred mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
