Gosh, This is Hard to Believe!

I don't find it hard to believe at all. :no:

I'm having a much harder time with e-mail, having more and more messages flagged by spam filters. It's just very unreliable these days. :(
 
Does sound a little high. Most traffic models i have been seeing show simulate spam levels at about 40-60% of the data traffic makeup.
 
I was being sarcastic, of course. The type and volume seems to come in waves. I was getting the Viagra types with misspelled subjects. Then, it was the stock tips in graphic form. I had talks with a few corporate officers over that one. They were pushing the SEC and FBI to do something but there was little effort until the SEC finally issued some pretty stiff warnings. Now, it's back to some stiff efforts to push drugs.

One would think Microsoft and the various ISPs would create an easy interface in Outlook to reject unwanted mail. But, they don't. Imagine how much more efficient mail servers might be? :rolleyes:
 
You know, about 75-90% of my USPS mail is "spam" too...so I don't find that statistic to be fantastic.

And I find that paper spam to be much more irritating than the electronic kind.
 
I think Scott is correct, the 60% models seem relatively believable. From my own personal perusal of my inbox over the last couple of days about 67% of my mail has been spam (in the spam filter).

On the other hand, my e-mail is publicly available in several places on the web, so I probably pick up a little from that.

~ Christopher
 
If 60% of email making it to an account is spam, where it is either caught by a spam filter (either by desktop software or mail server-side protection) or makes its way to the inbox, then the volume making the rounds of web servers out there is much higher. There is a lot of spam that you never even see in your spam folders.
 
Either I'm not considered a worthy target for spam, or the spam filters at work, the IEEE and Comcast are pretty good, because I don't see anywhere near that percentage of my incoming e-mail to be spam. Not that it's not out there, but it is not winding up in my inbox.
 
I'll have to look up the information from our Barracuda... 95% doesn't seem that unbelievable here. Remember, that's of all email sent. Spam bots don't take breaks or only email once every ten minutes or anything like that.
 
Actually, I looked at the catch logs on the mail server I run for a non-profit. Between blacklists and spam filter about 86% of messages were caught. I can imagine that it is higher on other servers with more traffic.

~ Christopher
 
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