Warren Baker put forth on 1/18/2011 2:53 AM: > On Monday, January 17, 2011, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >> Cor Bosman put forth on 1/16/2011 5:34 PM: >>> Btw, our average mailsize last we checked was 30KB. Thats a pretty good >>> average as we're an ISP with a very wide user base. I think 4KB average is >>> not a normal mail load. >> >> As another OP pointed out, some ISPs apparently have to deliver a lot of >> spam to >> mailboxen to avoid FPs, bumping up that average mail size considerably. Do >> you >> accept and deliver a lot of spam to user mailboxen? > > > At an ISP I worked at, we did a study (just over 2 years ago) on the > average size of spam mail that was been delivered to the users. It > worked out to an average size of between 8KB and 10KB. This was based > on data over a period of 12months with an average of a 180 million > mails per month been received. Legit mail was averaging at 32KB. > > I doubt whether the sizes of spam has changed much.
What was the ratio of spam to ham you were delivering to user mailboxes? -- Stan