[ILUG] ILUG AGM Announcement

[Proinnsias Breathnach]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:52:22PM +0100, Paul Mc Auley wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> | (how much spam comes through anyway? i rarely notice spam on the 
> | list).
> 

Donncha just grepped his spam archive (why he archives spam is open to
question ... but he does) and the results since 1st Sept 2004 are as
follow:

	Spam with [ILUG] in the header since 2004-09-01: 9
	ILUG posts in same timeframe: Approx 1500

Spam percentage: 0.6%

Margin for error (donncha's finger might have slipped towards the D key
once or thrice) - we'll triple the spamcount and get 1.8% spam volume

Given the mailman filtering stops about 150/day I'd say we're getting
off rather lightly.

> Indeed, the vast majority of unwanted mail to the list that I receive
> originates from people who are list members. [rimshot]
> 
> Or in other words, there's more noise on the list about spam than there
> is actual spam.

Bingo ...
(and with that /me 'D' keys this email !)

P