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Re: [Asrg] March spam ratio

2003-03-31 08:38:27
On Monday, Mar 31, 2003, at 15:39 Europe/London, Dave Crocker wrote:

MS> MessageLabs spam ratio for March 2003: 36.3% (an increase of 29.3% on
MS> the February figure).

Here is a proposal:

This is supposed to be a technical discussion group.  If someone is
going to place some tidbit of information into the group, other than
their own opinion, I propose that they should offer substantiation for
the tidbit.

In the case of statistics, a citation to its source and/or a discussion
of how it was obtained.

That way we will have some ability to assess the tidbit, rather than
being expected to accept it blindly.

Wouldn't it be more sane to ask people to check the archives for that poster? *sigh*

Anyway, I'll comply:

This is just spam detected for our customers (about 1.3m users across the globe). So some has got through (about 92-98% accuracy is usual). Spam is detected by a variety of means, but most spam is detected via heuristics (and no I'm not proposing this as a long term solution to spam - I'm merely posting the figures here for research/analysis purposes).

Further details available on http://www.messagelabs.com/viruseye (will be updated to the March edition later today).

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