[Cialug] damn spammers

[neal daringer]

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On 11/7/07, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
>   
>> Dave Weis wrote:
>>     
>>> My little mail forwarding experiment is working well. I was going
>>> through the logs and between Nov 4 at 6 AM and now it's dropped 2.4
>>> million emails. There have been a whopping 117 legitimate emails
>>> forwarded onward.
>>>       
>> agreed, from our barracuda since 2007-12-27:
>> Total: 6,967,030
>> Allowed: 345,421
>>     
>
> Google posted  a blog entry about the statistics from gmail:
>
> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-our-spam-filter-works.html
>
> Seems like 70-80% of their mail is spam.
>
> Jeff
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my email is hosted with google(gmail) and less than 0.1% of the spam 
going towards my domain goes through. that means pry about 10 messages 
per week.