On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 18:44, Carl Hutzler wrote:
We used to block that much. I believe we hit 2.5B in the Spring of this
year. Heard yesterday that MSFT blocks over 3B now.
Christ, I didn't realize the volume was actually that high for your
company.
But now our block volume is a lot lower....more like 1 to 1.5 billion a day
as the spammers are largely giving up on getting to us - they just aren't
attempting nearly as much. Complaints from members are down from 12-16M a
day in April to 3-4M a day now. And total volumes (good mail and spam mixed)
to the inbox are down from 450M a day to 280-300M a day now.
Still this is a substantial amount of mail but regardless equally
substantial is the reduction you've just quoted. What would you
attribute this reduction to? Surely its not just SPF?
And since you are asking, false positives are very low in the spam folder
and calls about blocking from other ISPs are very low as well....we do have
calls, but they are all justifiable and very fixable/temporary once we get
that FBL set-up with the spam infused ISP on the other end of the phone
line.
Are you at liberty to disclose the full spectrum of filtering that is in
place on your network other than SPF? I'm curious just what else is
being done to facilitate such a large drop as I mentioned earlier.
I would never say it is "over" as it is never and will never be. But we have
a good system and are getting better and better. It is what I would call
"manageable".
Yes I quite agree, it will likely never end. Glad to hear that you've
had such positive results in the past months.
Oh, wanna see how we are doing from a non-AOL employee's tracking system?
(you don't have to listen to me :-)
AOL complaints courtesy of Michael Rathburn:
http://www.tesp.com/UBETotalRate.htm
Versus a small internet domain Michael hosts:
http://www.tesp.com/tespUBERate.htm
Simply amazing the volume drop I'm really quite impressed, again I had
no idea that in the first place your SPAM volume was that significant
and secondly to see such a significant drop in such a short period of
time.
Cheers,
James
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