16,424 spam email messages received in 16 days - spam_16000_in_16_days

16,424 spam email messages received in 16 days - spam_16000_in_16_days
2007-02-11 11:59:57

who says all of the e-mail circulating on the internet these days is spam? i probably received about 160 valid messages over the same period. what is that? less than 1% ham?


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  • dcc
  • distributed checksum clearinghouse
  • fetchmail
  • filtering
  • gentoo
  • kwin (because beryl just broke temporarily)
  • mail filtering
  • mail reader
  • mua
  • procmail
  • spamassassin
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  • thunderbird 1.5.0.9
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Comments:

Trinity338: 1% real stuff? I've never done the stats. That's way too depressing. I currently have 1400 in the spam queue waiting to be deleted..about 5 days worth…not even close to your 16,000 spam-a-nightmare.
spam_protestocusu_34: i am in war with spammers

www.flickr.com/photos/11906255@N04

but tihs king of scrrenshots for real companies

Some of them is sending me “Sorry mail and they promise me they will not send again” then i delete it from Flickr.

if they send again i will put the screenshot again on Fliker :)
sean dreilinger: hi nutaroonie - i'm happy with spamassassin and the other measures in-place. i would only be shopping for something else if the existing solution were suffering from false positives (ham mislabeled as spam) or false negatives (spam mislabeled as ham). the reason i posted this photo is not to complain about the spam filtering tools (which are working very well), but to note the insane ratio of spam:ham, presumably because my primary email address has been published and remains unchanged since 1998.

Notes:

sean dreilinger: total filtered into the 'junk' folder by spamassassin, procmail and/or thunderbird upon return from 14-day vacation: 16,424 spam messages