On 05/11, Adam Katz wrote: > Long tail there; the sum of all of your items was 56.5%. Even if you > truncated those numbers, it doesn't add up (56.5 + 19 * 0.1% = 58.4%).
Yup, sorry I wasn't clear, those were just the top, not the entire list. > I'm not sure how much of my company's data I can disperse, but here's a > peek. We break things down a little differently, but here is what > overlaps (as isolated by From header in trap + report data, classified > spam only): > > 100.0% (sum of all items below) > 32.6% yahoo > 29.4% hotmail + live > 17.3% gmail > 10.8% aol > 9.8% facebook > 0.1% orange.fr > > So with this data, yahoo sent 1.1x as much as hotmail. I'm sure you have better data than I do. That's probably enough for me to stop bitching about yahoo. Thanks. On 05/11, Joe Sniderman wrote: > [1] This seems to depend on the IP address used to sign up for the > google account. When signing up through a TOR exit node (at least at the > time that I tried it, which was > 1yr ago) Gmail asked for either a > cellphone number for text confirmation, or an existing email address. Excellent point. My friend that said everybody but yahoo required a previous email address was probably using TOR. Thanks. -- "The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman http://www.ChaosReigns.com
