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Re: Research question: How many legitimate mail sources are out there?

2005-08-13 07:39:12

Matthew Elvey <matthew(_at_)elvey(_dot_)com> wrote:
Would someone out there please take a stab at answering this question?  
Or has it been answered already?

  Yes.  http://www.striker.ottawa.on.ca/~aland/spam/

  The data covers a significant portion of the Internet.

I'm guessing that there are under a million such mail sources.  There 
are around .1 billion TLD Names*.

  Close.  As of a year ago, about 300k IP's.

  Alan DeKok.