> -----Original Message----- > From: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:49 PM > To: 'Raquel'; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Bit OT but it's about SPAM > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Raquel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:29 PM > > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:58:23 -0700 > > "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 10/17/07, Tom Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just thought if anyone hasn't read it yet, this article might > > > > be interesting to many of you. According to this report SPAM has > > > > now reached being 95% of all email. > > > > > > This is hyperbole. > > > > > > What it really means is that 95% of the mail processed by > > > someone's commercial spam filter has been classified, possibly > > > incorrectly, as spam. The rates are much lower (though still too > > > high for comfort) if false positives are accounted for. > > > > > > See, for example: > > > http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.14617 > > > > >
I am seeing in the 90% range but that doesn't include the millions I block via firewall lists etc. I think this also varies more when you look at secondary and triciary servers which tend to get hit a lot more from spam. I think those numbers are defiantly in the neighborhood.... Joey
