Statistics on Spam

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

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