Re: Extremely High Spam Statistics

[Ken Connelly <Ken.Connelly () UNI EDU>]

Roger Safian wrote:
> At 06:51 PM 2/12/2007, Tim Lane put fingers to keyboard and 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%.
>
> Your levels on spam seem high to me.  I'd suggest that you change your public
> directory to not include email address in plain text.  You can obfuscate them,
> see our directory for an example.
ooh, that's...  interesting.  How long have you been doing that and do
you get complaints about it?  Anyone else doing similar things?

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- Ken
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Ken Connelly             Associate Director, Security and Systems
ITS Network Services                  University of Northern Iowa
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