On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:06:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Over the past month I've seen a ~25% dropoff in the amount of spam we're > receiving on a daily basis. Anyone else seeing a significant drop in > spam recently?
(Replying to self) The amount of spam we're receiving did go back up a little after the holidays, as some of you suggested it would. But it didn't go back up to pre-December levels. We are seeing a consistent decrease in the amount of spam addressed to recipients in our domain. Back in March, when we started rejecting high-scoring messages with a 550 at our internet gateway, we were getting 200000 messages per week on average (over 90% spam), including rejected messages. After we started rejecting, over a period of about a month it rapidly dropped to 130000, and for most of the summer it stayed around 110000-130000. Through October and early November is was steady at 110000 messages per week. Then it started dropping again: Week ending total received messages Dec 5 104217 Dec 12 103839 Dec 19 103748 Dec 26 89378 Jan 2 80315 Jan 9 89175 I don't know whether the 550s are getting our users removed from spammer lists, or if there's some other factor. I was thinking maybe overall Internet spam was dropping, but from your replies last week, that doesn't seem to be the case. Anyway, I guess we're doing *something* right. :-) -- snowjack(a)fastmail.fm
