[ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:03:10 +0100
  | From: "Colm Buckley" <colm at tuatha.org>
  | Subject: Re: [ILUG] Best Email Server to Use
  | 
  | On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Lars Hecking wrote:
  | >  But others of us are getting loads of spam from gmail accounts ...
  | 
  | Really?  Can you show me some examples?

 I just checked c.25000 of my captured spam samples.
 That set of samples represent almost all the spam
 I have received since c.mid-April 2007 (i.e., about
 the last 15 months worth's of spam that made it to
 my home computer).

 Of those, c.136 — i.e., c.0.5% (½ of 1%) — show clear
 signs of having either originated from, or passed
 through, the generalissimo's servers.  I presume the
 count of 136 contains false positives (I did not do
 any careful filtering/analysis), and so the actual
 incident rate is probably lower.  (It's theoretically
 possible, foe several confounding reasons, it could
 be higher, but I'm not interested enough to check.)

 I have no idea how this compares with other services
 also in that set of captured spams.

 That set of captured spams is (a subset of) the spams
 sent to my home computer.  As such, it's probably quite
 different from the traffic an ISP (for instance) sees.
 Hence, I'd be very reluctant to extrapolate much from
 the low rate; esp., since I've no idea how it compares
 to other services.

 I've also made no attempt to plot the received spam
 over time to see if, e.g., it's been increasing?

cheers!
	-blf-

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