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This is how bad spam has gotten [Nov. 1st, 2007|10:19 am]
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Here's our company's mail stats for about 250 customers that use our mail services this month:
Total Emails Processed      13,058,261   

Rejected, Invalid Address   11,257,145  86% 
Rejected as Spam             1,583,873  12% 
Rejected as Virus               15,868   0% 
Rejected, Invalid Domain         9,838   0% 
Rejected, MIME Errors               10   0% 
Total Emails Blocked         12,866,734 99% 

Tagged as Clean                 159,628  1% 
Tagged as Spam                   31,899  0% 
Total Emails Forwarded          191,527  1%


Look at that. 99% of all our e-mail rejected due to spam. Jesus, spam is bad out there.
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[User Picture]From: [info]ironkite
2007-11-01 05:06 pm (UTC)

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Is there any way of stopping it besides your filters? Like shutting down the senders and such?
[User Picture]From: [info]badmagic
2007-11-01 06:14 pm (UTC)

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Huh? I'm reading only 12% blocked as Spam. Or is an "Invalid Address" a synonym for "Spam factory?"
[User Picture]From: [info]aurienne
2007-11-01 07:59 pm (UTC)

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I've had stuff hijack my address to spoof as the originator of spam, so I would get hundreds of undeliverables bounced "back" to me daily. (this is partially why I don't even bother with my own domains any more -- that phase of my life MAY be completely over, actually. It feels kinda sad. )
[User Picture]From: [info]punkwalrus
2007-11-02 01:52 am (UTC)

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Well, say you have a domain like "example.com." Spammers will do "dictionary attacks," like they send mail to aaaaa@example.com, aaaab@example.com, aaaac@example.com, and so on. Well, actually, most are alittle smarter, like aaronascher@example.com, billascher@example.com, carlascher@example.com, and so on. It doesn't matter how many they get wrong, it costs the same to send 50 emails as it does to send 50,000. If they get 49,999 wrong... they don't care.

Those asshats... I hate them soooooooooooooooooooooo much. We have 6 high powered machines, near top-of-the line, running at top speed 24 x 7, and ALL they do is scrub for spam. :(