On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:49:24 +0300, Hank Nussbacher said:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
Doesn't seem to be stemming the tide of emails from Comcast though: <http://www.senderbase.org/?searchBy=organization&searchString=Comcast%20Cable>
I'm not arguing about Comcast still spewing - they obviously still have issues in that arena... *However*... I'd take those numbers with at least a grain of salt, given that they're showing my laptop as having an average "magnitude" of 4.6 (3.1 for today), and our Listserv server an average magnitude of 4.8 (4.6 for today), saying that long-run my laptop is generating almost as much mail as our Listserv box. And that's not including the e-mail I post while my laptop is at other addresses. I'll overlook the fact that my laptop has sent a whole whopping 16 pieces of mail since midnight, and our Listserv has sent at *least* 40,000. Why the discrepancy? Because when I post to a list like NANOG or a SecurityFocus list or Linux-Kernel, it gets counted multiple times, once for each recipient sampled by SenderBase.... And for extra fun, it appears that it counts *every* machine in the Received: headers, as trapdoor.merit.edu scores a 5.3, segue.merit.edu a 4.3, and testbed9.merit.edu a 4.0. Meanwhile, mail.merit.edu gets a 0.0, because it's not showing up in the Received: lines for NANOG postings, most likely... The fact that I can from a laptop with a little posting to a few large lists rank higher than all but 53 of AOL's 2,553 listed sources should indicate that perhaps those numbers aren't quite as useful as they appear. Comcast.net has 31,923 addresses listed at the moment. Do they have 30,000 zombies, or 30,000 customers that post to popular mailing lists? Quite possibly at least partly the latter, as 24.22.118.199 ranks a 3.0 and isn't (as far as I know) a spam zombie, but a frequent poster to the linux-kernel list. Meanwhile, of those 31,923, only 1,969 have a monthly magnitude of 4.7 or more, the 4.8 cutoff is at 1,567, and the last 4.9 is at 1,012. And that 4.9 is (roughly) twice as much as I generate... OK.. Think about that - of the 30,000+ listed, only 1,000 or so have measured e-mail volumes significantly higher than one guy who posts a lot. Obviously, either my laptop is infested with a spam-spewing AI zombie (which *has* been alledged before), or the SenderBase numbers don't tell the whole story.... Another indication: from the message I'm replying to: Received: from efes.iucc.ac.il (efes.iucc.ac.il [128.139.202.17]) by testbed9.merit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41125186B for <nanog@merit.edu>; From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il> http://www.senderbase.org/search?searchString=128.139.202.17 Hmm.. the IP ranks a 2.5 for the last 30 days, but: "No address list shown since no email was detected from iucc.ac.il." http://www.senderbase.org/search?searchString=mail.iucc.ac.il gets a "last 30 days" of 0.0. Ooooh Kaaaay.. maybe we need more than just a pinch of salt here... ;)