9 Dec
2006
9 Dec
'06
1:59 p.m.
This account sees something over 10x more spam than genuine traffic, almost all of which is autofiltered. On 12/9/06, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:50:57AM -0500, David Hester wrote:
CNN recently reported that 90% of all email on the internet is spam. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/27/uk.spam.reut/index.html
CNN is behind the times. We passed 90% junk (spam, viruses, bogus virus warnings, worms, outscatter spam, C/R spam, etc.) a few years ago. Locally, over the last three months, we've been rejecting > 98% of incoming traffic with just two reported problems from internal and external users.
And almost all of that rejected traffic TCP-fingerprints as originating from hosts running Windows.
---Rsk