As I've mentioned a few times in the past few weeks and months, we're in the process of switching over from blacknight.ie to blacknight.com.

I switched this blog over to the .com a couple of weeks ago and didn't think anymore about it until just now.

Normally I check the comment spam filter every couple of days to see if any legitimate comments have been blocked and end up dumping several thousand junk comments.

For the last few days it's been completely empty!

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but I suspect that the spammers are confused by the redirects or something... I guess they'll find the new location for the comment form fairly soon, but if they don't I won't complain!

Of course I might have just broken the blog comments ... If you can't post a comment please let me know (michele@blacknight.com)!

Posted by Michele Neylon at 8:54 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

As it's a Friday evening I thought I'd have a quick look at the spam filtering stats to see what's been going on.

I haven't looked at ALL the figures yet, but just to give you a flavour of what's going on...

One of our filtering nodes was sent 372,460 emails yesterday. It rejected 88% of those mails!!
Of the 30 thousand plus emails that it filtered nearly 30% was marked as spam.

Can you imagine that amount of junk hitting your office mail server on a dsl line?

I'd rather not!

Posted by Michele Neylon at 6:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)