Re: Extremely High Spam Statistics

[Mark Borrie <mark.borrie () OTAGO AC NZ>]

Hi Tim

Some stats from this part of the world.

Yesterday we had about 1.1 million smtp connects.  We rejected 42% of
these.  Of the remaining, a further 33% were flagged as spam.

This gives us about 61% of incoming email is caught as spam. This leaves
less than 20 other emails per user per day, which seems reasonable. We
do have some spam that gets through, but not a lot.

Your spam % seems very high, and your total valid messages seems low.

Mark.

Tim Lane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would be interested in comparing our spam stats with other
> institutions.  We are currently sent around around 450 000 emails per
> day, of which 98-99% are spam leaving around 5000 valid email messages
> passed through.  This is transparent to our uses who only receive
> valid email.
>
> Are other institution's spam levels this high?  I would be very
> interested in hearing stats as I thought global rates were only around
> 90-95%.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> Tim Lane
> Information Security Program Manager
>
> Information Technology and Telecommunication Services
> Southern Cross University
> PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480
>
> (02 6620 3290   7              02 6620 3033   - tlane () scu edu au
> 8 http://www.scu.edu.au

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Mark Borrie
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Information Technology Services, University of Otago,
Dunedin, N.Z.
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