David F. Skoll wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Chris Lewis wrote:
>>Alan knows of what he speaks.
>>See http://striker.ottawa.on.ca
> I have a hard time believing that's typical, except for large
> companies and ISP's.
Nobody's suggesting it's typical. It's just where we're all headed if
we don't put on the brakes.
There are plenty of reports of in-the-ballpark-comparable experiences
with much smaller organizations.
Striker is, admittedly, a far out case, where it looks like a single
spammer malfunction has led to a continuous and unstoppable DDOS.
On the other hand, our spamtrap metrics are what a, say,
long-existing[+] 100,000[*] user company looks like after 18+ months of
turning off the deliverability of the domain. Imagine if it was an ISP
with considerably higher turnover and similarly long life. 100,000
users is a _small_ provider in comparison to moderate to large ISPs...
AOL blocks three and a half orders of magnitude more spam than our
spamtrap represents...
[*] for reasons I won't go into here, what was a 10,000 employee company
probably looked like a 100,000-seat ISP on the Internet in terms of
proliferation of email addresses. Thank god we got rid of that mess.
[+] long-existing? Consider: the domain behind that spamtrap was in the
game early enough to get a class A with no questions asked.
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