I know everyone always loves to see spam statistics, so here are mine. I’ve notived a huge increase in spam in the past few months.
Instance of: | 03/17 – 05/05 (50 Days) | 05/05 – 06/04 (30 Days) |
---|---|---|
X-Envelope-To: | 11142 | 9505 |
X-Spam-Status: | 9564 | 7943 |
Subject: | 9729 | 8107 |
Avg. no. of spam/day: | 210 | 267 |
Size of ‘caughtspam’ file: | 58923673 bytes (58 MB) | 49982182 bytes (49 MB) |
Number of pieces of spam received per day:
- 01 May 03: 388
- 02 May 03: 497
- 03 May 03: 470
- 04 May 03 :395
- 01 Jun 03: 502
- 02 Jun 03: 437
- 03 Jun 03: 414
- 04 Jun 03 :147 (partial day)
The numbers above are retrieved by using the grep command against my ‘caughtspam’ file that SpamAssassin writes to.
Posted by Cameron Barrett at June 4, 2003 12:48 AM