[LINK] A day in the life of Spam

Thu Apr 15 10:02:33 EST 2004

>So I set SpamAssin to put the Spam in a folder for a day, rather than just 
>delete it. This resulted in 464 messages (2.1 mbytes) rated from 4.5 to 
>55.1. The higher rating the worse the Spam, with over 5 considered most likely

Speaking of which.  I just noticed something that made me smirk.

Since 1 July 2001 to the current date, I have received 19,566 LINK 
messages, consuming a total of 78,805K of disk space.

Here are the SPAM results from 1 January to 31 December in each year:

Year            Messages        Diskusage
-1999              755           3,273K
2000             1,062           5,162K
2001             6,388          41,427K
2002            10,740          60,635K

2003             5,802          26,218K
2003-HTML        7,609          27,803K
2003-TOTAL      13,411          54,021K

2004-date        1,424           3,284K
2004-HTML        7,016          26,920K
2004-TOTAL       8,440          30,204K

-HTML is the search for messages with <html - x> meta data automatically 
being rejected.  I started this around August last year, I think it was 
Howards suggestions.  This split the messages that made it through sendmail 
filtering into text and html spam folders.  HTML is automatically rejected 
whereas TEXT messages still end up in my various sorted folders.

Since 3/10/02 my virus folder has 2162 messages using 5,523K of space.  I 
haven't been so vigilant on this process.