[Gllug] spam etc

[John G Walker]

These figures seem about normal to me. I use SpamBayes, which cuts
out virtually all the spam, but I can understand why those who don't
have an adequate filtering system give up on email,

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All the best,
 John

Saturday, April 22, 2006, 5:38:51 PM, john gennard wrote:

> I have only ever used Claranet as my ISP and continue
> to do so as they give satisfaction.

> They operate an effective spam filtering programme
> which one can elect to use and which quarantines most
> 'naughties'.

> Daily, I see 200 to 300 emails quarantined - these I
> quickly run through and delete, thinking no more about
> matters.

> Today, I paid attention to the pie-chart and stidied
> the daily statistics. I was staggered when I summarised
> and applied percentages viz,

> Total emails scanned		4,739,936

> Spam				4,225,882	89.2%
> Clean				  504,683	10.6%
> Virus				    9,371	  .2%	

> Much of my email traffic comes from Mailing Lists (mainly
> this one and debian-user) and I seem fortunate.
> Today I have received 141 (40.75%)messages into my Inbox
> and 205 (59.25%) went into quaratine.

> I wonder if 90% of messages being spam is common, for
> this is not the figure I see bandied about in the Media.

> John.

> P.S. I've never changed my email address so I must have
> been well harvested over the years.


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