More Statistics on Spam

Since the middle of March I’ve been saving the spam file that SpamAssassin writes to. Here are the latest statistics I’ve culled from it:

Instance of: As of 05/05 As of 06/04 As of 07/01 As of 07/28
X-Envelope-To: 11142 20643 28645 43008
X-Spam-Status: 9564 17507 24313 36723
Subject: 9729 17836 25899 41190
Avg. no. of spam/day: 210 267 n/a 513
Size of ‘caughtspam’ file: 58 MB 108.8 MB 158.2 MB 232.9 MB

Amount of spam received per day:

  • Wed Jul 02 (365)
  • Thu Jul 03 (428)
  • Fri Jul 04 (323)
  • Sat Jul 05 (393)
  • Sun Jul 06 (451)
  • Mon Jul 07 (394)
  • Tue Jul 08 (441)
  • Wed Jul 09 (485)
  • Thu Jul 10 (565)
  • Fri Jul 11 (550)
  • Sat Jul 12 (533)
  • Sun Jul 13 (454)
  • Mon Jul 14 (513)
  • Tue Jul 15 (610)
  • Wed Jul 16 (548)
  • Thu Jul 17 (591)
  • Fri Jul 18 (531)
  • Sat Jul 19 (523)
  • Sun Jul 20 (606)
  • Mon Jul 21 (527)
  • Tue Jul 22 (578)
  • Wed Jul 23 (659)
  • Thu Jul 24 (418)
  • Fri Jul 25 (590)
  • Sat Jul 26 (596)
  • Sun Jul 27 (586)
  • Mon Jul 28 (591)

The statistics above show that since the middle of March I’ve received over 43,000 pieces of email that SpamAssassin has markes as spam. The number of spam received has risen from about 200 per day to about 500 per day in just four months.

Posted by Cameron Barrett at July 28, 2003 08:13 PM

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *