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Re: [Asrg] Dictionary Attacks

2008-11-18 20:17:03

On Nov 18, 2008, at 4:54 PM, der Mouse wrote:


I don't know what Earthlink's daily load of <abuse> email is, but I
wouldn't be surprised if it exceeded 1,000,000.

So?  I'm with rsk on this one.  Either they need to get more active
against abuse, or they have such a huge user base that supporting that
kind of abuse@ load is just a part of being that big.  (At 1e6 a day,
given typical abuse-to-report ratios, I'd say the latter would require
something approaching a majority of the planet's population as a user
base.)

That number is likely a drastic overestimate.

Most of the abuse desks I'm familiar with, at big providers, are dealing
with <10k inbound messages a day, excluding feedback loops, before
removing any spam.

Cheers,
  Steve

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