June 04, 2003
Statistics on Spam
I know everyone always loves to see spam statistics, so here are mine. I've notived a huge increase in spam in the past few months.
| Instance of: | 03/17 - 05/05 (50 Days) | 05/05 - 06/04 (30 Days) |
|---|---|---|
| X-Envelope-To: | 11142 | 9505 |
| X-Spam-Status: | 9564 | 7943 |
| Subject: | 9729 | 8107 |
| Avg. no. of spam/day: | 210 | 267 |
| Size of 'caughtspam' file: | 58923673 bytes (58 MB) | 49982182 bytes (49 MB) |
Number of pieces of spam received per day:
- 01 May 03: 388
- 02 May 03: 497
- 03 May 03: 470
- 04 May 03 :395
- 01 Jun 03: 502
- 02 Jun 03: 437
- 03 Jun 03: 414
- 04 Jun 03 :147 (partial day)
The numbers above are retrieved by using the grep command against my 'caughtspam' file that SpamAssassin writes to.
Posted by Cameron Barrett at June 4, 2003 12:48 AMMe too... we've got serverside blocking in the shop, and I use whitelists on the client, but I'm still deleting tons more these past few weeks. (Those new Sobig attachments are a particular hassle.)
Between this and dumb posts (titles like "Hey I have a question!" and such), I realized this week that one reason I've moved so much of my time to blogs is that they're explicit whitelists... I trust the people to whom I repeatedly give attention. Although I'll still be putting time into newsgroups and mailing lists, increasingly I can no longer trust the judgment of all the people who might send through these channels. The openness to send has been abused to death.
Posted by: John Dowdell at June 4, 2003 02:42 PM
After reading this post I was inspired to create Project SpamSearch. Basically, it automates the task of compiling SPAM statistics. The homepage has details on how to get started.
Posted by: Joe Stump at June 4, 2003 03:02 PM
