On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:44 AM, W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:
>> handles anything from about 10-30k incoming mails per day, and blocks
>> about 20-50k spam a day so its not that much under strain.
>
> That is a suspiciously low percentage of spam to ham, IMNSHO.
>
> Over six+ years, we see closer to 80% spam, 20% ham. And even that is
> after early-rejections that are excluded from the ratio.
Those numbers seem pretty reasonable to me, they mirror what we see,
though undoubtedly some spam gets through. And also note that these
stats are from a different system based on sendmail.
[todd@tlyons ~]$ emailstats
Webmail System Statistics for 2009-05-06
TotalIncoming: 767809
RBL: 584657
Spams: 85564
Accepted: 97588
LocalDelivered: 72734
Forwarded: 24854
PercentGood: 12.7099
I'd be curious to see how this compares to others' mail breakouts.
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Regards... Todd
