[aclug-L] Re: Controlling Spam

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, that is indeed sad.  I suspect many of these come from outside the=20
USA so the noise congress has made about stopping it may be fruitless. =20
Seems like somehow forcing a real return address would be a start, but=20
I have no idea if that could ever be possible.

By the way, I don't know where the "=3D20" s  in my message are coming=20
from.  I often send messages to a list with my address in the "To:"=20
block and never see them.  Is it something in the ACLUG turnaround?
bruce

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 08:45 pm, you wrote:
>
> Here are my stats for my personal email address (same address for 8
> years and it appears online in quite a few places):
>
> During the last 21 days at my personal address I have recived 48,655
> emails (2,316 a day)
>
> 398 of those were notifications of someone sending me a infected
> email that we blocked.
>
> 42,094 (2,004 a day) of those were spam (87%).
>
> "Real" mail (of which some is of course still spam) was 6,163 (293 a
> day).
>
> What is really sad about those numbers is they are actually a little
> better the past month than normal.
>
> Chris
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