Friday Spam Stats

By on September 28, 2007 in Blacknight, Email, irishblogs, security, spam filtering

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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!

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2 Responses to Friday Spam Stats

  1. Dick Humphreys October 3, 2007 at 18:23 #

    I use windows XP and have a free Eircom address. Can you provide a free spam block?

  2. Michele Neylon October 3, 2007 at 19:59 #

    Dick
    Our filtering only works for people who have their own domain name. We cannot filter Eircom.net email
    Sorry!
    Michele